How to install Lime survey on Linux mint 18.03

To install Lime survey on Linux mint 18.03

Lime survey is an open source online survey application. It has been widely used by many big industries to create the survey tasks. It has many powerful features like creating dynamic fields for survey. Supports multilingual, defines user roles, user groups and the more it has been integrated into various CMS. In this tutorial, you will learn the method to install Lime Survey on Linux mint 18.03.

Prerequisites

To install LAMP(Apache, MariaDB and php7.2) In MariaDB (create database and user and give privileges to that user)

Php installation with required following modules

add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php 
apt-get update 
apt-get install php7.2 php7.2-mysql php7.2-curl php7.2-json php7.2-cgi libapache2-mod-php7.2 php7.2-mcrypt php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-gd php7.2-mbstring php7.2  php7.2-common  php7.2-xmlrpc php7.2-soap  php7.2-xml php7.2-intl  php7.2-cli  php7.2-ldap php7.2-zip php7.2-readline php7.2-imap php7.2-tidy php7.2-recode php7.2-sq php7.2-intl

Installation

Download a Lime survey package using by wget command.

linuxhelp ~ # wget http://download.limesurvey.org/latest-stable-release/limesurvey3.14.8+180829.zip
--2018-09-14 13:59:27--  http://download.limesurvey.org/latest-stable-release/limesurvey3.14.8+180829.zip
Resolving download.limesurvey.org (download.limesurvey.org)... 88.198.94.203
Connecting to download.limesurvey.org (download.limesurvey.org)|88.198.94.203|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://download.limesurvey.org/latest-stable-release/limesurvey3.14.8+180829.zip [following]
--2018-09-14 13:59:28--  https://download.limesurvey.org/latest-stable-release/limesurvey3.14.8+180829.zip
Connecting to download.limesurvey.org (download.limesurvey.org)|88.198.94.203|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 75908528 (72M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘limesurvey3.14.8+180829.zip’

limesurvey3.14.8+180829.z 100%[====================================>]  72.39M   689KB/s    in 2m 10s  

2018-09-14 14:01:38 (572 KB/s) - ‘limesurvey3.14.8+180829.zip’ saved [75908528/75908528]

The downloaded package is a zip file, so we need to unzip the package now.

linuxhelp ~ # unzip limesurvey3.14.8+180829.zip 
Archive:  limesurvey3.14.8+180829.zip
   creating: limesurvey/
 extracting: limesurvey/.bowerrc     
  inflating: limesurvey/.editorconfig  
  inflating: limesurvey/.gitattributes  
  inflating: limesurvey/.gitignore   
  inflating: limesurvey/.htaccess    
.
.
.
creating: limesurvey/upload/labels/
  inflating: limesurvey/upload/labels/index.html  
  inflating: limesurvey/upload/labels/readme.txt  
  inflating: limesurvey/upload/readme.txt  
   creating: limesurvey/upload/themes/
  inflating: limesurvey/upload/themes/index.html  

Change the ownership and permission for limesurvey directory

linuxhelp ~ # ls
limesurvey  limesurvey3.14.8+180829.zip
linuxhelp ~ # chown -R www-data:www-data limesurvey
linuxhelp ~ # chmod -R 775 limesurvey

Move the composer directory into the /html location

linuxhelp ~ # mv limesurvey /var/www/html/

Create a new virtual host configuration to accessing the lime survey application

linuxhelp ~ # cd /etc/apache2/sites-available/
linuxhelp sites-available # vim lime.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/limesurvey/
<Directory /var/www/html/limesurvey/>
AllowOverride All
allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Enable the site access.

linuxhelp sites-available # a2ensite lime.conf 

Enabling site lime. To activate the new configuration, you need to run:

service apache2 reload

Entry to the host file

linuxhelp sites-available # vim /etc/hosts
<your ip address>     <your domain name>

Then we need to restart the apache2 service

linuxhelp sites-available # systemctl restart apache2.service

Now we have to open a browser and type the following URL of http://local IP (or ) domain name

The welcome page appears on your screen. Click on Start Installation.

The License page appears on your screen. Click I Accept.

Click next on the next page

Now, you need to configure the database. Make the necessary configuration. Click Next once done with the page.

Now, it will ask for Populate database. Click on the button.

Optional Settings page appears now. Create all your login credentials.

The installation is successful.

Login with your credentials now.

Finally, here you can see admin page of composer cms.

With this the complete installation of LimeSurvey is over. Enjoy working with LimeSurvey.