Should\nbe simple go into \u201c\/etc\/php.ini\u201d <\/em>set date.timezone\n restart Apache\/HTTPD and get\npast that message\nthen\nget in and do the initial configurations within Zoneminder but\nthat\u2019s not what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In\n\u201c\/etc\/php.ini I\nset date.timezone to America\/Los_Angeles\nrestarted Apache with systemctl and no changes. Checked for typos and\ninvisible characters in\n\u201c\/etc\/php.ini\u201d restarted\nand nothing changed again. I started checking permissions on web\nfiles, started looking through \u201c\/etc\/http\/conf.d\/php.conf\u201d check\nZonemindr config files everything looks solid but I still get the\n\u201cZoneMinder\nis not installed properly: php’s date.timezone is not set to a valid\ntimezone\u201d <\/em>message<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This\nis a minimal install and I\u2019m\nvery\nsure I only have one version of php and Apache. To\nconfirm\nI run:<\/p>\n\n\n\n #php\n-i | grep timezone This\nshows I have set my timezone parameters properly yet I still get the\nmessage\n\n\u201cZoneMinder\nis not installed properly: php’s date.timezone is not set to a valid\ntimezone\u201d<\/em> I\nfound many workarounds in forums like providing the date.timezone\nvalue in \u201c\/etc\/http\/conf.d\/php.conf\u201d or going into\n\u201c\/usr\/share\/zoneminder\/www\/index.php\u201d\nand commenting out the code checking date.timezone for\nthe Zoneminder application.\nI don\u2019t want edits and hacks all over in non-default files because\nwhen updating or changing things these things may cause\nissues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally\nI created a phpinfo web page navigate to it and date.timezone\nvalue is\nblank!! Doing\n\u201cphp -i\u201d shows properly still!<\/p>\n\n\n\n #php\n-i | grep timezone Ok\nso obviously php.ini isn\u2019t passing the date.timezone parameter to\nApache for some reason even though the phpinfo web page shows it\u2019s\nusing the \u201c\/etc\/php.ini\u201d configuration file for php!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\nchecked the current Zoneminder system and they are\nsetup with Apache and PHP identically\nexcept the OS versions\nFedora 28 versus Fedora 30 so I started searching for difference in\nthe versions and found what I needed in the Fedora forums. FastCGI is\nnow a required\ndependency\nfor Apache\/httpd via the \u201cphp-fpm\u201d service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n #systemctl\nstatus php-fpm<\/p>\n\n\n\n php-fpm.service\n– The PHP FastCGI Process Manager I noticedphp-fpm has not been restarted since I made my changes in \u201c\/etc\/php.ini\u201d so now I decide to restart \u201cphp-fpm\u201d and the \u201cZoneMinder is not installed properly: php’s date.timezone is not set to a valid timezone\u201d <\/em>message is gone so now I can actually configure Zoneminder with my cameras!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Basically\nthis is what\u2019s needed to\nmake sure your changes you make in \/etc\/php.ini are passed on to\nApache in Fedora 30 and possibly other versions starting at Fedora 27\nthough I didn\u2019t have this issue with Fedora 28 or\nI didn’t\nnotice it for some reason:<\/p>\n\n\n\n #vi\n\/etc\/php-fpm.conf \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nMake\nthis change:<\/p>\n\n\n\n date.timezone<\/strong>\n= America\/Los_Angeles<\/p>\n\n\n\n #\nsystemctl restart httpd Verify\nby creating a pphpinfo file and navigating to it <?php\nphpinfo(); ?> #cat \/var\/www\/html\/phpinfo.php # Fedora\nforum posts that pointed me in the right direction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/forums.fedoraforum.org\/showthread.php?317215-Apache-PHP-Configuration<\/a>\nwhich referenced:<\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/blog.remirepo.net\/post\/2017\/11\/17\/Fedora-27-changes-in-http-and-php<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wanted to setup some quick testing of Zoneminder on different platforms last night and started the basic configurations. Installed Fedora 30 , installed RpmFusion repository, installed mysql community database mariadb, Apache installed, install Zoneminder rpms using \u201cdnf\u201d etc.. Went … Continue reading
\nDefault\ntimezone<\/strong>\n=> America\/Los_Angeles
\ndate.timezone<\/strong>\n=> America\/Los_Angeles => America\/Los_Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n#\nphp -i | grep -i config <\/em>
\n<\/em>Config<\/strong><\/em>uration\nFile (php.ini) Path => \/etc <\/em>
\nLoaded\n<\/em>Config<\/strong><\/em>uration\nFile => \/etc\/php.ini <\/em>
\n<\/em>Config<\/strong><\/em>uration\n<\/em>
\nOpenssl\ndefault <\/em>config<\/strong><\/em>\n=> \/etc\/pki\/tls\/openssl.cnf<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nOnce\nagain looks good and proves I\u2019m editing the only and correct\nphp.ini file but this isn\u2019t translating to Zoneminder I looked for\noverriding parameters not finding any.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nDefault\ntimezone<\/strong>\n=> America\/Los_Angeles
\ndate.timezone<\/strong>\n=> America\/Los_Angeles => America\/Los_Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n#\nsystemctl restart php-fpm
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\nContents\nof phpinfo.php:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nExample:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
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