Limesurvey on Janik von Rotz

Results of my very important internet survey

Thu, 09 Apr 2015 12:29:11 +0000

First some backgroud informations about why I’ve published this kind of survey:

There are many pulbic survey tools, but none of them offers the as much features as LimeSurvey. To run surveys on my own, I’ve installed the LimeSurvey application on this server. For more insight of how the user interacts with the surveys I’ve added Piwik tracking for my LimeSurvey installation. To test the setup I’ve added a simple survey and posted the link to the SampleSize subreddit.

What started as a simple system test enraged people all over the world. I didn’t expect anybody to contribute to this survey, nethertheless I had great discussion about crocs and nickelback.

Some awesome quotes from the thread:

One second to read, a lifetime to choose an answer.

by zmonge

It was hard, but in the end, Crocs don’t make me bleed from the ears.

by brown3jh

CROCS. I WEAR THEM.

by monsto

Nickleback, no contest. I’d rather be forced to wear crocs for the rest of my life then listen to Nickelbutt.

by Voxel_Sigma

Results

Now I would like to present the results of this so important survey.

Obviously most people didn’t bother to finish the survey. I can understand that.

Finally we know that Crocs are worse than Nickelback.

Enable Piwik for LimeSurvey

Thu, 09 Apr 2015 10:30:10 +0000

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Introduction

Piwik is an Open Source webanalytics software. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to integrate the Piwiks plugin for LimeSurvey.

Requirements

Installation

Navigate to the LimeSurvey plugin directory.

cd /var/www/<limesurvey>/plugin

Clone the Piwik LimeSurvey plugin.

sudo git clone https://github.com/SteveCohen/Piwik-for-Limesurvey.git PiwikPlugin

Copy the scripts from the sub folder in to the main plugin folder.

cd PiwikPlugin/
sudo mv ./PiwikPlugin/* ./
sudo rm -R PiwikPlugin

Add access rights for the webserver user.

sudo chown www-data:www-data -R ./*

Open your Piwik website //<piwik host>/index.php?module=SitesManager and optionally add a new site.

Copy the ID of the site where you want to store your LimeSurvey tracking data.

Open the LimeSurvey plugin manager //<limesurvey host>/index.php?r=plugins and click the settings icon of the Piwik for Limesurvey plugin.

Update the URL to Piwik's directory field with the url of your piwik installation //<piwik host>.

Add the ID of the Piwik site to the Piwik SiteId field.

Save the settings and enable the plugin.

Whenever a user access one of your suveys their actions are tracked with Piwik.

Install LimeSurvey webapp

Wed, 08 Apr 2015 09:07:55 +0000

This post is part of my Your own Virtual Private Server hosting solution project.
Get the latest version of this article here: https://gist.github.com/169c177fe3927247f579.

Introduction

LimeSurvey is the leading open source survey application.

Requirements

Installation

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.