Setting up

This was tested on a Ubuntu 12.10 server and motion 3.2.12
(http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome)

How I setup motion rough guide.

Install as LAMP server

sudo su

apt-get update

apt-get install motion

(note that the version of motion is 3.2.12 from the repos has no mysql module compiled, this is the main reason for this project as I had many problems trying to compile from source and encountered bugs)

mkdir /cameras

chmod 777 /cameras

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default (need to check as working from memory)
changed the default web folder from /var/www to /cameras

mkdir /etc/motion/CameraConfigs
added all camera config thread files in this directory. Make sure that the output path
of the camera is directed to /cameras so for example will be /cameras/cam1

nano /etc/motion/motion.conf
changed image capture to first (for jpg) and video saving to avi (msmpeg)
changed deamon to on

copy the files from here (index.php, error.php and style.css) to /cameras

reboot server and make sure motion is running.

you should be able to go to http://your_server/index.php or http://your_server

This is a very basic setup guide..