Google Code-In development environment quick-setup: Difference between revisions
From LimeSurvey Manual
No edit summary |
m (Text replace - "Limesurvey" to "LimeSurvey") |
||
| Line 12: | Line 12: | ||
#Login to gitHub then open our [https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey github page] and click the 'Fork' button to fork the LimeSurvey repository to your private one. | #Login to gitHub then open our [https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey github page] and click the 'Fork' button to fork the LimeSurvey repository to your private one. | ||
#Use SmartGit to check out your personal fork of LimeSurvey to a subdirectory named limesurvey of <your_xampp_install_dir>\htdocs\ directory (by default the master branch will be checked out) then switch the branch to 2.1. | #Use SmartGit to check out your personal fork of LimeSurvey to a subdirectory named limesurvey of <your_xampp_install_dir>\htdocs\ directory (by default the master branch will be checked out) then switch the branch to 2.1. | ||
#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 ' | #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'. | ||
#After the LimeSurvey installation has finished login at http://localhost/limesurvey/admin using the username 'admin' and the password 'password'. | #After the LimeSurvey installation has finished login at http://localhost/limesurvey/admin using the username 'admin' and the password 'password'. | ||
| Line 20: | Line 20: | ||
#Login to gitHub then open our [https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey github page] and click the 'Fork' button to fork the LimeSurvey repository to your private one. | #Login to gitHub then open our [https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey github page] and click the 'Fork' button to fork the LimeSurvey repository to your private one. | ||
#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. | #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. | ||
#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 ' | #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'. | ||
#After the LimeSurvey installation has finished login at http://localhost/limesurvey/admin using the username 'admin' and the password 'password'. | #After the LimeSurvey installation has finished login at http://localhost/limesurvey/admin using the username 'admin' and the password 'password'. | ||
Latest revision as of 15:16, 6 June 2013
General
This page is targeted at Google Code-In participants and describes the fastest way to set up a development environment for LimeSurvey.
Steps...
...for Windows
- Download the install the XAMPP installer package and execute the setup to install it.
- Download and install SmartGit.
- Create an account on gitHub (if you don't already have one).
- Login to gitHub then open our github page and click the 'Fork' button to fork the LimeSurvey repository to your private one.
- Use SmartGit to check out your personal fork of LimeSurvey to a subdirectory named limesurvey of <your_xampp_install_dir>\htdocs\ directory (by default the master branch will be checked out) then switch the branch to 2.1.
- 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'.
- After the LimeSurvey installation has finished login at http://localhost/limesurvey/admin using the username 'admin' and the password 'password'.
... for Linux (Ubuntu)
- Open a console and execute 'sudo aptitude install apache2 mysql git' to install mySQL and Apache2 webserver
- Create an account on gitHub (if you don't already have one).
- Login to gitHub then open our github page and click the 'Fork' button to fork the LimeSurvey repository to your private one.
- 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.
- 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'.
- After the LimeSurvey installation has finished login at http://localhost/limesurvey/admin using the username 'admin' and the password 'password'.