Ubuntu Nginx Zoneminder php-fpm config

README.md

Zoneminder provides instructions for setting up Zoneminder on Ubuntu, but they assume you're using Apache: https://wiki.zoneminder.com/Ubuntu_Server_16.04_64-bit_with_Zoneminder_1.30.0_the_easy_way

I've moved away from Apache for webserving and wanted to see if there was a way to configure Zoneminder to work using Nginx and php-fpm. After a lot of trial and error I got it working. Include the snippet above in your nginx config to get it working at http:///zoneminder/ .

snippets-zoneminder.conf

    location ~ ^/zoneminder/(.+\.php)(.*)$ {
        root /usr/share/zoneminder/www/;
        fastcgi_split_path_info       ([^/]+\.php)(.*)$;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO       $fastcgi_path_info;


        # Mitigate https://httpoxy.org/ vulnerabilities
        fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY "";

        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;

        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }

    location /zoneminder/ {
        alias /usr/share/zoneminder/www/;
        index index.php;
    }

    location = /zoneminder/cgi-bin/nph-zms {
        root /usr/lib/;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/lib/zoneminder/cgi-bin/nph-zms;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
    }