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Introduction

Limesurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is the most free & open source survey tool available on the web.

It supports more that various language, many different questiontypes, (e.g multiple choice, boolean, tables, commented, file upload, etc.) and enables an online HTML-editing to manage the content via a Web Browser.

Limesurvey can leverage LDAP protocol to manage users and survey invitation via email.

Description

The Dockerfile buils from "php:5-apache (see https://hub.docker.com/_/php/)

This image does not leverage embedded database

Roadmap

SMTP environment variables for email notifications
External url for email email notifications
Memcached via container link
MySQL or PostgreSQL autoconf via container link

Quick Start

Run a supported database container with persistent storage (i.e. MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL).

docker volume create "limesurvey-db"

docker run --name='limesurvey-md' -d \
--restart=always \
-e MYSQL_DATABASE=limesurvey \
-e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=V3rY1ns3cur3P4ssw0rd \
-e MYSQL_USER=limesurvey \
-e MYSQL_PASSWORD=V3rY1ns3cur3P4ssw0rd \
-v limesurvey-db:/var/lib/mysql \
-v limesurvey-dblog:/var/log/mysql \
-v limesurvey-etc:/etc/mysql \
mariadb

Run the Limesurvey container exposing internal port 80 with persistent storage for the upload folder (i.e for. themes).

docker volume create "limesurvey-upload"

docker run --name='limesurvey' -d \
--restart=always \
-p 32701:80 \
-v limesurvey-upload:/var/www/html/upload \
--link limesurvey-md:mysql \
fjudith/limesruvey

Environment variables

Database

DB_TYPE: postgresql or mysql; default = mysql
DB_HOST: host of the database server; default = mysql
DB_PORT: host of the database server; default = 3306
DB_USERNAME: username to use when connecting to the database; default = empty
DB_PASSWORD: password to use when connecting to the database; default = empty
DB_NAME: name of the database to connect to; default = limesurvey
DB_TABLE_PREFIX: prefix name of database table; default = lime_

Public URL

PUBLIC_URL: root URL to be written in email noficiations; default = empty

SMTP

SMTP_HOST: hostname/fqdn of the SMTP server; default = localhost
SMTP_PORT: tcp listen port of the SMTP server; default = 25
SMTP_PROTOCOL: smtp or lsmtp protocol; default = smtp
SMTP_AUTH: enable smtp authentification; default = off
- SMTP_USERNAME: user to connect the SMTP server; default = empty
- SMTP_PASSWORD: password to connect the SMTP server; default = empty
SMTP_TIMEOUT: email notification timeout (milliseconds); default = 30000
SMTP_TLS: enable smtp over ssl; default = off
- SMTP_TLS_CHECK: enable server side certificate validation; default = off
- SMTP_STARTTLS: enable STARTTLS method; default = off
- SMTP_TLS_TRUST_FILE: path to trusted certificate file; default = empty
MAIL_FROM_DEFAULT: sender emal address; default = limesurvey@example.com
MAIL_DOMAIN; (optional), sets the argument of the SMTP EHLO (or LMTP LHLO) command. The default is ‘localhost’, which is stupid but usually works. Try to change the default if mails get rejected due to anti-SPAM measures. Possible choices are the domain part of your mail address (provider.example for joe@provider.example) or the fully qualified domain name of your host (if available); default = empty

Memcached

MEMCACHE_HOST: hostname/fqdn of the Memcached server; default = empty
MEMCACHE_PORT: tcp listen port of the Memcaced server; default = empty

Initial configuration

Start a web browser session to http://ip:port
Click Next until you reach the Database configuration screen
Then full-fill the following fields:

Database type: MySQL
Database location: mariadb (i.e the link alias name)
Database user: limesurvey
Database password: V3rY1ns3cur3P4ssw0rd
Database name: limesurvey
Table prefix: lime_

Docker-Compose

You can use docker compose to automate the above command if you create a file called docker-compose.yml and put in there the following:

Small deployment

Runs inside apache.

limesurvey-md:
  image: mariadb
  restart: always
  ports:
    - "32805:3306"
  environment:
    MYSQL_DATABASE: limesurvey
    MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: V3rY1ns3cur3P4ssw0rd
    MYSQL_USER: limesurvey
    MYSQL_PASSWORD: V3rY1ns3cur3P4ssw0rd
  volumes:
    - limesurvey-db:/var/lib/mysql
    - limesurvey-dblog:/var/log/mysql
    - limeservey-dbetc:/etc/mysql

limesurvey:
  image: fjudith/limesurvey
  restart: always
  ports:
    - "32705:80"
  volumes:
    - limesurvey-upload:/var/www/html/upload
  links:
    - limesurvey-md:mysql

Large deployement

Runs inside php-fpm linked to memchaced and nginx external containers.

version: '2'

services:

  limesurvey-md:
    image: mariadb
    restart: always
    ports:
      - "32805:3306"
    environment:
      MYSQL_DATABASE: limesurvey
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: V3rY1ns3cur3P4ssw0rd
      MYSQL_USER: limesurvey
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: V3rY1ns3cur3P4ssw0rd
    volumes:
      - limesurvey-db:/var/lib/mysql
      - limesurvey-dblog:/var/log/mysql
      - limesurvey-dbetc:/etc/mysql

  limesurvey-mc:
    image: memcached

  limesurvey:
    image: fjudith/limesurvey:fpm
    restart: always
    environment:
      MEMCACHE_HOST: memcached
      PUBLIC_URL: http://survey.example.loc
      SMTP_HOST: smtp.example.com
      SMTP_TLS: 'on'
      SMTP_PORT: 465
      SMTP_AUTH: 'off'
      MAIL_FROM_DEFAULT: no-reply@example.com
      MAIL_DOMAIN: mail.example.com
    volumes:
      - limesurvey-data:/var/www/html
    links:
      - limesurvey-md:mysql
      - limesurvey-mc:memcached

  limesurvey-nginx:
    image: fjudith/limesurvey:nginx
    ports:
      - 32706:8443/tcp
      - 32705:8080/tcp
    links:
      - limesurvey-mc:memcached
      - limesurvey:limesurvey
    volumes:
      - limesurvey-data:/var/www/html
      - limesurvey-nginx-config:/etc/nginx
      - limesurvey-nginx-log:/var/log/nginx

volumes:
  limesurvey-db:
  limesurvey-dblog:
  limesurvey-dbetc:
  limesurvey-upload:
  limesurvey-data:
  limesurvey-nginx-config:
  limesurvey-nginx-log:

And run:

docker-compose up -d

brndls / docker-limesurvey