Lime survey install

For this article, we use LimeSurvey 2. Before starting the installation procedure for LimeSurvey, create a database on your server. Also create a user and grant this user db ownership permission to the database. This walkthrough uses the following database information:. To enable both libraries, open the PHP. The lines that contain these stringsare most likely commented out with a semicolon.

Remove the semicolons, save and restart your Web server. We have not enabled these tools for our application.

We take care of the infrastructure and you concentrate on the important things: your surveys. Our highly available premium hosting provides you with LimeSurvey as a cloud application directly after registration.

To fullfill data protection requirements, we offer to store your data at various locations of your choice. Our servers are located in:. We recommend updating to the current version at all times. Have a look at our ComfortUpdate Extension to make handling your own installation even easier. For more information see our manual. Field-based data encryption — this can be activated for survey participants and responses on a field-by-field case to store sensitive personal data securely.

Introduction of user roles. New function to get the question text of multiple choice and array questions via questioncode. New permission system for survey groups — assign individual permission for a certain group of surveys.

Soft mandatory prompt — this reminds a participant to fill out a question but may still proceed without doing so. In our template library you can find example surveys, label sets and question templates in various languages. Once you've downloaded the archive that contains the installation, you need to upload it to your disk space. You can either extract all the files from the downloaded archive and upload them, or you can upload the archive and use the web hosting Control Panel's File Manager to extract the package.

Please note that the installation files are usually placed in a subdirectory, so after extraction you may need to move them to the directory you've designated for the LimeSurvey application. The File Manager lets you select multiple files and folders to move to any location on your account. The best way to upload big files or multiple files is via FTP. If you are not sure how to upload the files, please check the Uploading files section from our online documentation.

If you are installing the application directly in your main domain or in a subdomain, you may need to delete the default index. Unless you have a reason to do otherwise, you can select all available privileges for the new MySQL user. You need to access with your browser the directory in which the extracted LimeSurvey files are located. On the first step choose a language for the installation and click the Start installation button.

Read and accept the license information of LimeSurvey by clicking the I accept button. On the next page LimeSurvey will check whether the hosting server meets the installation requirements. Click Next. On this step you will need to enter your database information. Please specify the following settings:.