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==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===
#[http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#641 Download the install the XAMPP installer package] and execute the setup to install it.
#[http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/download.html Download] and install SmartGit.
#Create an account on gitHub (if you don't already have 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.
#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 [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.
#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'.