Limesurvey Self-Hosting Installation

- Ubuntu22.04 (tested 22.04.3)

# dependencies
sudo apt update

## apache
sudo apt install apache2

## mariadb
sudo apt install mariadb-server
### mariadb setting
sudo mysql_secure_installation

## php
sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-xml php-mbstring php-gd php-ldap php-zip php-imap php-json php-curl
### php check
echo "<?php phpinfo(); ?>" | sudo tee /var/www/html/phpinfo.php

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http://localhost

http://localhost/phpinfo.php

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# limesurvey

## download 
cd /var/www/html
sudo wget https://download.limesurvey.org/latest-master/limesurvey6.2.9+230925.zip
sudo unzip limesurvey6.2.9+230925.zip

## directory/file ownership
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/limesurvey/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/limesurvey/tmp
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/limesurvey/upload
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/limesurvey/application/config

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limesurvey download --> https://community.limesurvey.org/downloads/

Downloads

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## database setting for limesurvey
sudo mysql -u root -p
CREATE DATABASE limesurvey;
CREATE USER 'limesurvey'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON limesurvey.* TO 'limesurvey'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

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http://localhost/limesurvey/admin

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# update setting fro apache server
sudo systemctl restart apache2