I'm getting a weird message from phpmyadmin
saying:
#2006 - MySQL server has gone away
What I found online is that I should increase the size of max_allowed_packet
witch should be in the my.conf
file witch is located at /etc/my.cnf
. Untill now everything is fine, but the problem is that this file does not contain what I need.
Here is the content of the .cnf file on my server:
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
# Disabling symbolic-links is recommended to prevent assorted security risks
symbolic-links=0
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
Where should I look in order to increase the size of the packet? I'm new in the linux world and I'm lost.
Best Answer
You need to change the
my.cnf
file to include the single line under[mysqld]
in your filenow
restart the MySQL service
and you are done.You can see its current value in mysql like this:
You can try changing it like this, but it's unlikely this will work on shared hosting:
Also please read this: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/packet-too-large.html