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LimeSurvey 2.0 Development Setup

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General

This document assumes that you know how to setup your own local web-server for local development.
Recommended package for a quick web-server LAMP stack setup is XAMPP (external link).

1. Install required PEAR libraries

These libraries are needed for development only. They are not needed for a normal installation of LimeSurvey 2.
  • Windows: Execute 'pear install mdb2' and 'pear install MDB2_Driver_mysql' from commandline
  • Mac: Nothing to do here - you don't need PEAR.
  • Linux: Execute 'pear install mdb2' as root from shell

Proxy: If you are using a proxy you have to setup pear accordingly using:
pear config-set http_proxy http://url.to.proxy:port (external link) (e.g. pear config-set http_proxy http://proxy.domain.org:8080) (external link)
If the setup was adapted successfully the line config-set succeeded will be shown.

2. Retrieve source code


Proxy: If you are using a proxy you have to edit ~/.subversion/servers . Find these two variables near the bottom under global settings and uncomment them out replacing with your proxy info
http-proxy-host = yourproxy.yourdomain.com
http-proxy-port = 80 (or what every your port number is)

3. Install the MySQL GUI tools

  1. Download and install from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html (external link)
  2. Run the MySQL Administrator GUI tool
  3. Connect to localhost as root (no password). Under more options, Connect Using Socket need to be: /var/mysql/mysql.sock
  4. Create a new "Catalog" (database) called 'limesurvey'

4. Run the installer

  • Fire up your browser and visit the URL of the previously created LS2 directory. You should be transferred to the installer. Run the installer and fill out all necessary information.

5. Activate debugging mode in CakePHP

  • Go to the directory \app\config
  • Copy the file debug-core.php.sample to debug-core.php to activate debugging in CakePHP. That way you can see possible errors & warnings (otherwise they are suppressed) and the queries hitting the database


6. Windows: Add the following paths to your system path environment variable

  • Path to php.exe
  • Path to /ls2/cake/console

7. Use the Firefox browser for development

Firefox has the best plug-ins for serious web-development. Install Firefox 3 and the following plug-ins:


Done! Point your browser at http://localhost/ls2 (external link) or http://ls2 (external link)

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