LimeSurvey is the leading open source survey application.
- Ubuntu server
- Nginx
- Nginx minimal website
- php5-fpm
- php5-mysql
- Nginx php5-fpm website
- MySQL
- Increased Max Upload for php5-fpm website
Create the application directory
sudo mkdir /var/www/<limesurvey>/
Open the LimeSurvey application directory
cd /var/www/<limesurvey>/
Download latest LimeSurvey package and untar it. You can get the link to the latest release here: https://www.limesurvey.org/en/stable-release.
sudo wget http://download.limesurvey.org/Latest_stable_release/limesurvey205plus-build150310.tar.gz
sudo tar -xzvf limesurvey205plus-build150310.tar.gz
Copy the extracted files to the current folder and delete the other files
sudo cp -r ./limesurvey/* ./
sudo rm -r limesurvey
sudo rm limesurvey205plus-build150310.tar.gz
Let's create the MySQL LimeSurvey database and user.
mysql -u root -p
Enter the MySQL root user password.
Create the LimeSurvey database.
CREATE DATABASE <limesurvey>;
Create the LimeSurvey database user.
CREATE USER <limesurvey>@localhost;
Set the password for the LimeSurvey database user.
SET PASSWORD FOR <limesurvey>@localhost = PASSWORD("<password>");
Grant LimeSurvey user full access on LimeSurvey database.
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON <limesurvey>.* TO <limesurvey>@localhost IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
Refresh MySQL and exit.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit
Grant permissions for the www-data group and user.
sudo chown www-data:www-data /var/www/<limesurvey> -R
Test config and reload Nginx service.
sudo nginx -t && sudo service nginx reload
Open the browser again on //<host> and install the LimeSurvey application.