To configure mb, see config.inc Two languages are available : fr and en If you want to add a new translation, see file en, copy this file to your_language and update the strings. You also need to configure the locales for your distribution and put the corresponding entry in config.inc. To create the database, you need an updated table for mysql : CREATE TABLE `security` ( `camera` int(11) default NULL, `filename` varchar(80) NOT NULL default '', `frame` int(11) default NULL, `file_type` int(11) default NULL, `time_stamp` timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, `text_event` varchar(40) NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00', `event_time_stamp` timestamp NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00', `file_size` varchar(36) NOT NULL default '0', KEY `time_stamp` (`time_stamp`), KEY `event_time_stamp` (`event_time_stamp`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;