Google Code-In development environment quick-setup

General
This page is targeted at Google Code-In participants and describes the fastest way to set up a development environment for LimeSurvey.

...for Windows

 * 1) Download the install the XAMPP installer package and execute the setup to install it.
 * 2) Download and install SmartGit.
 * 3) Create an account on gitHub (if you don't already have one).
 * 4) Login to gitHub then open our github page and click the 'Fork' button to fork the LimeSurvey repository to your private one.
 * 5) Use SmartGit to check out your personal fork of LimeSurvey to a subdirectory named limesurvey of \htdocs\ directory (by default the master branch will be checked out) then switch the branch to 2.1.
 * 6) Open your browser and go to http://localhost/limesurvey/admin. The LimeSurvey installation should start up. Install LimeSurvey and when asked for database credentials use user name 'root', empty password, and database name 'LimeSurvey'.
 * 7) After the LimeSurvey installation has finished login at http://localhost/limesurvey/admin using the username 'admin' and the password 'password'.

... for Linux (Ubuntu)

 * 1) Open a console and execute 'sudo aptitude install apache2 mysql git' to install mySQL and Apache2 webserver
 * 2) Create an account on gitHub (if you don't already have one).
 * 3) Login to gitHub then open our github page and click the 'Fork' button to fork the LimeSurvey repository to your private one.
 * 4) Use git to check out your personal fork of LimeSurvey to a subdirectory named limesurvey of /var/www/htdocs directory (by default the master branch will be checked out) then switch the branch to 2.1.
 * 5) Open your browser and go to http://localhost/limesurvey/admin. The LimeSurvey installation should start up. Install LimeSurvey and when asked use the database name 'LimeSurvey'.
 * 6) After the LimeSurvey installation has finished login at http://localhost/limesurvey/admin using the username 'admin' and the password 'password'.