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A LimeSurvey in a docker: make it a quick and dirty

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You may need to ask your colleagues about something at one point, I’m sure about it. But I’m sure about also that you don’t have time, neither hardware, to program an entire survey or to install the software in a specific server. Since I’m lazy also, as you know, I looked for a docker solution until I found one that does the job. The basic principles of a lime survey you get on this post. This will work if your docker station has a mysql database – you will be asked to connect to the database. If you don’t have, or you don’t want to use it, we need a compose with a mysql docker.

It is worth to mention all the docker images I found. I hope it saves you googling time! 😁😁. So here you have the crramirez limesurvey image, with a pseudo-docker compose. And here you have the martialblog limesurvey, with a lot of possible customisations. Me, I’m a simple person. I don’t want to play with customisation, I want to download a compose file and get the thing working out of the box. This goal you can achieve with the acspri limesurvey. In short (or TLTR) 😁😁😁: make a folder and copy this into a docker-compose.yml file.

version: '2'
services:
 limesurvey:
  image: acspri/limesurvey
  ports:
   - 8082:80
  environment:
    LIMESURVEY_DB_PASSWORD: example
    LIMESURVEY_ADMIN_USER: admin
    LIMESURVEY_ADMIN_PASSWORD: password
    LIMESURVEY_ADMIN_NAME: Lime Administrator
    LIMESURVEY_ADMIN_EMAIL: lime@lime.lime
  volumes:
    - ./plugins:/var/www/html/plugins
    - ./upload:/var/www/html/upload
    - ./config:/var/www/html/application/config
   mysql:
    image: mariadb
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: example

As usual, careful with the formatting if you cut’n’paste from above. Once you have this file in a folder in the computer with dockers up and running, just type

docker-compose up -d

And access to:

Frontend (what you send to the people)

http://localhost:8082/

Backend (to create the survey)

http://localhost:8082/index.php/admin

I’m not going to dig more, since now it’s time to write the survey. Don’t forget to check how to configure the default answers and how to export the results. If anyone is interested, that is not always the case 😩😩😩.