From a332bbbbc925c9cc7065a2f03441da999ade9beb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Uve M Steinmann <github@teachernightowl.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 21:55:07 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Added missing steps to Debian 11 installion docs

---
 docs/installationguide/debian.rst | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/installationguide/debian.rst b/docs/installationguide/debian.rst
index a5162d185..8f11086b7 100644
--- a/docs/installationguide/debian.rst
+++ b/docs/installationguide/debian.rst
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Now your terminal session is back under your normal user. You can check that
 you are now part of the sudo group with the command ``groups``, "sudo" should
 appear in the list. If not, run ``newgrp sudo`` and check again with ``groups``.
 
-**Step 2:** Update system and install zoneminder
+**Step 2:** Update system
 
 Run the following commands.
 
@@ -32,12 +32,45 @@ Run the following commands.
 
     sudo apt update
     sudo apt upgrade
+
+**Step 3:** Install MariaDB and do initial database configuration
+
+Run the following commands.
+
+::
+
     sudo apt install mariadb-server
-    sudo apt install zoneminder
+
+Switch into root user and create database and database user
+
+::
+
+    sudo su
+    mariadb
+    CREATE DATABASE zm;
+    CREATE user
+    grant permission
+    flush privilege
+    exit;
+    exit
 
 By default MariaDB uses `unix socket authentication`_, so no root user password is required (root MariaDB user access only available to local root Linux user). If you wish, you can set a root MariaDB password (and apply other security tweaks) by running `mariadb-secure-installation`_.
 
-**Step 3:** Setup permissions for zm.conf
+**Step 4:** Install zoneminder
+
+Run the following commands.
+
+::
+
+    sudo apt install zoneminder
+
+**Step 5:** Configure database
+
+:: 
+
+    mariadb -u zmuser -p < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql
+
+**Step 6:** Setup permissions for zm.conf
 
 To make sure zoneminder can read the configuration file, run the following command.
 
@@ -45,7 +78,16 @@ To make sure zoneminder can read the configuration file, run the following comma
 
     sudo chgrp -c www-data /etc/zm/zm.conf
 
-Congratulations! You should now be able to access zoneminder at ``http://yourhostname/zm``
+**Step 7:** Tweak Apache configuration
+
+::
+
+    sudo a2enconf zoneminder
+    sudo systemctl reload zoneminder.service
+    sudo systemctl restart zoneminder.service
+    sudo systemctl status zoneminder.service
+
+If the zoneminder.service show to be active and without any errors, you should be able to access zoneminder at ``http://yourhostname/zm``
 
 Easy Way: Debian Buster
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