Installing LimeSurvey 1.7
yewjin | June 16, 2008
Someone asked me to help them install limesurvey 1.7 (latest version) on a hosting package they bought from me and here is it — a step by step instruction to installing limesurvey 1.7
LimeSurvey is the leading open source survey tool. Here is how to install limesurvey.
1. Download 1.71+ the stable version
2. unzip the zipped version
3. It will automatically create a limesurvey folder with these files in it.

4. Open filezilla ftp application and login to your server.
5. At your ftp application - drag and drop the limesurvey folder (all of it) to your public_html folder. Please ensure - Transfer option at the menu - and transfer type is set to BINARY

6. Once the transfer is done. Open the config.php file using notepad.
7. This is what you will see in notepad :

Here is a few things that you need to change :
a. database_name
b. database_user
c. database_pass
d. $defaultuser - leave it as admin
e. $defaultpass - change it to whatever you want
(leave the rest as it is)
* Also please ensure that there are no spaces after ?> at the end of the document > save and upload the config.php file to public_html/limesurvey/.
8. Next is that you need to login to your cpanel. Go to http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel
9. Pop up will come on and type in your username and password as given
10. At the database section > click on Mysql databases

11. Create a new database

Based on my config.php - my database name is limesurvey >press on create database. In MYSQL term, my database name is actually yewjin_limesurvey.
After you have created the database - you need to create the database user.

In this my database is ayu - typed in the password and click on create user - so mysql username will be yewjin_ayu (generated automatically)
Next add user yewjin_ayu to yewjin_limesurvey database.

Click add and enable all privileges.

You are done with the database!
12. Permission setting - in their documentation, it states that you need to change the permission setting to chmod 777 for these folders :
- public_html/limesurvey/tmp
At you FTP - on the right hand side. - let’s do tmp.. Right click on tmp > file attributs

At file attributes ensure everything is being tick and chmod will automatically change to 777.

13. Next open your browser - and surf to http://www.yourdomain.com/limesurvey/admin/install
14. After it is done, rename the public_html/limesurvey/admin/install folder to public_html/limesurvey/admin/install_1
15. Surf to : http://your.domain.com/limesurvey/admin/admin.php - username admin password 123
And you are done! Good luck in your installation with limesurvey.






