How to install LimeSurvey in Ubuntu
To install LimeSurvey in Ubuntu
LimeSurvey is a free survey application that was programmed in php to create surveys. It permits the end user to access the web interface to develop and publish online surveys. Installation of Lime survey is explained in this article.
To install LimeSurvey
Before setting up LAMP, update your repositories by using the following command.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily InRelease
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-updates InRelease
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security InRelease
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports InRelease
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com wily-security/main Sources
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/main Sources
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/restricted Sources
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily/universe Sources
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Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/universe i386 Packages
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/multiverse i386 Packages
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/main Translation-en
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/universe Translation-en
Run the following command to install Mariadb Server.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install mariadb-server -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libaio1 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libhtml-template-perl libmysqlclient18 libreadline5 libterm-readkey-perl mariadb-client-10.0 mariadb-client-core-10.0
mariadb-common mariadb-server-10.0 mariadb-server-core-10.0 mysql-common
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Setting up libdbd-mysql-perl (4.028-2) ...
Setting up libhtml-template-perl (2.95-2) ...
Setting up mariadb-server (10.0.25-0ubuntu0.15.10.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (225-1ubuntu9) ...
Start and enable the mariadb service.
root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl start mysql root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl enable mysql
Then specify the root password for mariadb.
root@linuxhelp:~# mysql_secure_installation NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MariaDB SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY! In order to log into MariaDB to secure it, we' ll need the current password for the root user. If you' ve just installed MariaDB, and you haven' t set the root password yet, the password will be blank, so you should just press enter here. Enter current password for root (enter for none): OK, successfully used password, moving on... Setting the root password ensures that nobody can log into the MariaDB root user without the proper authorisation. Set root password? [Y/n] y New password: Re-enter new password: Password updated successfully! Reloading privilege tables.. ... Success! By default, a MariaDB installation has an anonymous user, allowing anyone to log into MariaDB without having to have a user account created for them. This is intended only for testing, and to make the installation go a bit smoother. You should remove them before moving into a production environment. Remove anonymous users? [Y/n] y ... Success! Normally, root should only be allowed to connect from ' localhost' . This ensures that someone cannot guess at the root password from the network. Disallow root login remotely? [Y/n] y ... Success! By default, MariaDB comes with a database named ' test' that anyone can access. This is also intended only for testing, and should be removed before moving into a production environment. Remove test database and access to it? [Y/n] y - Dropping test database... ERROR 1008 (HY000) at line 1: Can' t drop database ' test' database doesn' t exist ... Failed! Not critical, keep moving... - Removing privileges on test database... ... Success! Reloading the privilege tables will ensure that all changes made so far will take effect immediately. Reload privilege tables now? [Y/n] y ... Success! Cleaning up... All done! If you' ve completed all of the above steps, your MariaDB installation should now be secure. Thanks for using MariaDB!
Create a database and database user for limesurvey.
root@linuxhelp:~# mysql -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with or g. Your MariaDB connection id is 50 Server version: 10.0.25-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.15.10.1 (Ubuntu) Copyright (c) 2000, 2016, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Type ' help ' or ' h' for help. Type ' c' to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE limedb Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON limedb.* TO ' limeuser' @' localhost' IDENTIFIED BY ' linux' Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> FLUSH PRIVILEGES Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec) MariaDB [(none)]> exit Bye
Utilise the following command, to install the apache webserver package.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install apache2 -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3 libaprutil1-ldap liblua5.1-0
Suggested packages:
apache2-doc apache2-suexec-pristine apache2-suexec-custom
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Enabling conf security.
Enabling conf serve-cgi-bin.
Enabling site 000-default.
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (225-1ubuntu9) ...
Processing triggers for ufw (0.34-2) ...
Install the PHP extensions, by running the following command.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt php5-mysql -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libmcrypt4 php5-cli php5-common php5-json php5-readline
Suggested packages:
php-pear libmcrypt-dev mcrypt php5-user-cache
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Creating config file /etc/php5/mods-available/readline.ini with new version
php5_invoke: Enable module readline for apache2 SAPI
php5_invoke: Enable module readline for cli SAPI
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php5 (5.6.11+dfsg-1ubuntu3.4) ...
Visit the LimeSurvey’ s official link,
https://www.limesurvey.org/ to download the latest version
or download the package by using wget command.
root@linuxhelp:~# wget http://download.limesurvey.org/latest-stable-release/limesurvey250plus-build160718.zip
Extract the downloaded package as shown below.
root@linuxhelp:~# cd Downloads/ root@linuxhelp:~/Downloads# ls limesurvey250plus-build160718.zip root@linuxhelp:~/Downloads# unzip limesurvey250plus-build160718.zip Archive: limesurvey250plus-build160718.zip creating: limesurvey/ inflating: limesurvey/.gitattributes inflating: limesurvey/.gitignore inflating: limesurvey/.htaccess inflating: limesurvey/.scrutinizer.yml inflating: limesurvey/README creating: limesurvey/admin/ extracting: limesurvey/admin/admin.php inflating: limesurvey/admin/index.php . . . inflating: limesurvey/upload/admintheme/index.html creating: limesurvey/upload/labels/ inflating: limesurvey/upload/labels/index.html inflating: limesurvey/upload/labels/readme.txt inflating: limesurvey/upload/readme.txt creating: limesurvey/upload/surveys/ inflating: limesurvey/upload/surveys/index.html inflating: limesurvey/upload/surveys/readme.txt creating: limesurvey/upload/templates/ inflating: limesurvey/upload/templates/index.html inflating: limesurvey/upload/templates/readme.txt
Shift the " limesurvey" directory to /var/www/html/ location.
root@linuxhelp:~/Downloads# ls limesurvey limesurvey250plus-build160718.zip root@linuxhelp:~/Downloads# mv limesurvey /var/www/html/
Change the ownership for the limesurvey directory as follows.
root@linuxhelp:~# chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/html/limesurvey root@linuxhelp:~# ls -l /var/www/html/limesurvey/ total 84 drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:10 admin drwxr-xr-x 15 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:10 application drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 docs drwxr-xr-x 15 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 fonts drwxr-xr-x 19 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 framework drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 images -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 7552 Jul 18 15:10 index.php drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 installer drwxr-xr-x 90 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 locale -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1140 Jul 18 15:10 phpci.yml drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 plugins -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 61 Jul 18 15:10 README drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 scripts drwxr-xr-x 11 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 data-styles drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 data-styles-public drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 templates drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 themes drwxr-xr-x 32 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 third_party drwxr-xr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 tmp drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 18 15:11 upload
To Create apache virtualhost
Run the following command to create the configuration file and then generate a softlink as follows.
root@linuxhelp:~# touch /etc/apache2/sites-available/limesurvey.conf root@linuxhelp:~# ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/limesurvey.conf /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/limesurvey.conf
Unfold the limesurvey.conf file.
root@linuxhelp:~# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/limesurvey.conf
And append the following entries
< VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin admin@linuxhelp.com DocumentRoot /var/www/html/limesurvey/ ServerName linuxhelp.com ServerAlias www.linuxhelp.com < Directory /var/www/html/limesurvey/> Options FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All < /Directory> ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/linuxhelp.com-error_log CustomLog /var/log/apache2/linuxhelp.com-access_log common < /VirtualHost>
Restart the apache service.
root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl restart apache2
Hit the browser and access http://< IP_address> /limesurvey
Select the preferred language and click Start installation.
Read the License agreement and Click I Accept to proceed further.
Install the php modules if the following error occurs.
Open the terminal and run the following command to install PHP modules.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install php5-gd php5-ldap php5-imap -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc-client2007e mlock
Suggested packages:
uw-mailutils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libc-client2007e mlock php5-gd php5-imap php5-ldap
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 252 not upgraded.
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php5_invoke: Enable module ldap for apache2 SAPI
php5_invoke: Enable module ldap for cli SAPI
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for libapache2-mod-php5 (5.6.11+dfsg-1ubuntu3.4) ...
Then restart the apache services.
root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl restart apache2
Open the browser and reload the page.
Now configure the database and click populate database.
Create Administrator Account by filling up the fields below and click Next
Click Administration.
Login with credentials
Hit Create a new survey.
Start creating your own survey by filling the necessary fields.
Q
How can I stop the system from sending confirmation emails?
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If you are using tokens and a participant fills out the survey, a confirmation email is sent to his/her email address. If you don't want this message to be sent just delete the whole confirma
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2 limesurvey instance on same domain
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With 2 limesurvey instance on same domain, but different directory, you need to update the session configuration.
For example, if you have example.org/ls1 and example.org/ls2 : update the ls
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Purpose of using the LimeSurvey?
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LimeSurvey is a free survey application that was programmed in php to create surveys. It permits the end user to access the web interface to develop and publish online surveys.
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Why the LAMP or LEMP setup is need to run the LimeSurvey application?
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Because LimeSurvey is webinterface applicaion and which is written in PHP
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How can I restore data from a deactivated survey?
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We recommend to always use the time-out option instead of deactivating a survey. If you closed your survey accidentally it is important that you don't change anything in the survey.
Then, an