Hi All,

I have Zoneminder running just fine but by default it stores all of its snapshots under /data/srv/httpd/htdocs/zm but on my system (and by default) there's not much room there. OTOH I have /myth mounted on a central nfs server with gobs of room so I'd like to move all of the ZM stuff to /myth/zm or similar. I changed the zoneminder config to write to /myth/zm and I copied all of the files over there and modified lighttpd.conf as follows:


but as I expected lighttpd wouldn't serve content from that dir. So my question is, how do I get it to serve content from there?

I see this directive but of course I want to leave all the Myth web stuff alone so I don't think I'll be changing this.

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Paul O'Flynn

I'm not familiar yet with lighttpd but you should be looking for something like "php basedir". So perhaps googling that with lighttpd may turn something up.

In theory would using a symlink work? From what I understand it should do as you can give the symlink permissions for whatever web user needs it.

Just a thought.

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Girkers

A symlink should not work as it is supposed to be a security mechanism. But you never know.

How does mythweb get to the videos directory? Looking into the file structure, under /data/srv/httpd/htdocs/mythweb/data/video it is a symlink to /myth/video

Tried to find how that is referenced in mythweb, but could not find it.

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Girkers

Because the "/data/srv/httpd/htdocs/mythweb/data/video" is in the allowed Basedir by default.

The relevant file is
/etc/php/php.ini

Look for the variable "open_basedir"

Add the path you would like zm to use (symlinked or otherwise) and it should work.

Thx for all the prompt & extremely helpful replies guys.

The symlink sort of worked - lighttpd could serve up the HTML & php pages but for some reason no images, not even up & down arrows from the graphics directory. Dunno why that was. In the end I decided it might be easier to make my HD bigger - I am running my MBE in VirtualBox so I did the following:

1: Added a new big slave drive to my MBE
2: Booted from Clonezilla
3: Cloned the original HD to the new bigger one
4: Reboot into GParted
5: Extend the partitions to fill the new HD
6: Shutdown, delete original HD
7: Reboot: voila! Everything the same but with a bigger HD

It probably would have been better to store my security images on my nfs share for a few reasons but this is ok & took less time than becoming an expert in lighttpd.

Thanks again.

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Paul O'Flynn