Hi guys,

I'm working on a project for an Asian government body. As part of the project, I need to run a survey to collect some data. I was going to use a survey platform like Survey Gizmo or Qualtrics. But the government is now saying that I cannot use a platform that isn't hosted on domestic servers due to sensitive information and privacy issues. So that essentially leaves me with... nada.

So then I found out about LimeSurvey. And then I read that to install and implement it locally, I need an Apache, mySQL and PHP combo. I don't know what any of those mean or what any of those do.

Can someone ELI5 about what I'm supposed to do to get LimeSurvey set up? I'm a complete noob.

Is LimeSurvey even an appropriate solution for me? Is there something easier and better?

Thanks in advance!!

barkbomes9 wrote: Is LimeSurvey even an appropriate solution for me? Is there something easier and better?

Since you need to host yourself, i think it's the best solution.


Else you are nopt on a server management forum, we can only help to install LimeSurey on an existing server.

Start by setup a LAMP server or ask to government to give you the server …

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_%28software_bundle%29

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