Last updated August 2, 2010. Created by Dublin Drupaller on August 2, 2010.
Edited by thelionkingraja. Log in to edit this page.
Introduction
A situation arose recently where I had to import a 600mb database into a local drupal installation using WAMP (wampserver 2.x). MYSQL kept timing out. Tried using bigdump.php with no success so I ended up tweaking the mysql.ini that comes with wampserver to get the DB imported.
Instructions
- In your taskbar, point at your Wampserver icon and click the left mouse button once
- Scroll up to MYSQL and select mysql.ini - which will open your default mysql.ini in a text editor
- Save your default mysql.ini as a backup somewhere on your computer
- Paste the entire snippet pasted below into your mysql.ini
- Save your new mysql.ini and select RESTART ALL SERVICES from your Wampserver icon
Notes:
- As a tip and if it's practical, it's well worth doing a CLEAR ALL CACHES prior to taking the initial DB dump.
- The snippet below was used in WampServer 2.0i (july 2009) - your default mysql.ini might vary depending on which version of WAMP SERVER you are using
- Please comment or add a child page if you come up with a more elegant solution
- IMPORTANT: the following mysqli.ini snippet assumes you have installed WAMP in C:\WAMP. Edit paths accordingly if you have installed it elsewhere.
- I can't attach files to this book page, so, here's the full ammended mysql.ini below with settings tweaked to allow a DB import from the command line.
# Example MySQL config file for medium systems.
#
# This is for a system with little memory (32M - 64M) where MySQL plays
# an important part, or systems up to 128M where MySQL is used together with
# other programs (such as a web server)
#
# You can copy this file to
# /etc/my.cnf to set global options,
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this
# installation this directory is C:\mysql\data) or
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.
#
# In this file, you can use all long options that a program supports.
# If you want to know which options a program supports, run the program
# with the "--help" option.
# The following options will be passed to all MySQL clients
[client]
#password = your_password
port = 3306
socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
# Here follows entries for some specific programs
# The MySQL server
[wampmysqld]
port = 3306
socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
skip-locking
key_buffer = 516M
max_allowed_packet = 51M
table_cache = 564
sort_buffer_size = 5512K
net_buffer_length = 58K
read_buffer_size = 5256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 5512K
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 58M
basedir=c:/wamp/bin/mysql/mysql5.1.36
log-error=c:/wamp/logs/mysql.log
datadir=c:/wamp/bin/mysql/mysql5.1.36/data
# Don't listen on a TCP/IP port at all. This can be a security enhancement,
# if all processes that need to connect to mysqld run on the same host.
# All interaction with mysqld must be made via Unix sockets or named pipes.
# Note that using this option without enabling named pipes on Windows
# (via the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!
#
#skip-networking
# Disable Federated by default
skip-federated
# Replication Master Server (default)
# binary logging is required for replication
log-bin=mysql-bin
# binary logging format - mixed recommended
binlog_format=mixed
# required unique id between 1 and 2^32 - 1
# defaults to 1 if master-host is not set
# but will not function as a master if omitted
server-id = 1
# Replication Slave (comment out master section to use this)
#
# To configure this host as a replication slave, you can choose between
# two methods :
#
# 1) Use the CHANGE MASTER TO command (fully described in our manual) -
# the syntax is:
#
# CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST=<host>, MASTER_PORT=<port>,
# MASTER_USER=<user>, MASTER_PASSWORD=<password> ;
#
# where you replace <host>, <user>, <password> by quoted strings and
# <port> by the master's port number (3306 by default).
#
# Example:
#
# CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='125.564.12.1', MASTER_PORT=3306,
# MASTER_USER='joe', MASTER_PASSWORD='secret';
#
# OR
#
# 2) Set the variables below. However, in case you choose this method, then
# start replication for the first time (even unsuccessfully, for example
# if you mistyped the password in master-password and the slave fails to
# connect), the slave will create a master.info file, and any later
# change in this file to the variables' values below will be ignored and
# overridden by the content of the master.info file, unless you shutdown
# the slave server, delete master.info and restart the slaver server.
# For that reason, you may want to leave the lines below untouched
# (commented) and instead use CHANGE MASTER TO (see above)
#
# required unique id between 2 and 2^32 - 1
# (and different from the master)
# defaults to 2 if master-host is set
# but will not function as a slave if omitted
#server-id = 2
#
# The replication master for this slave - required
#master-host = <hostname>
#
# The username the slave will use for authentication when connecting
# to the master - required
#master-user = <username>
#
# The password the slave will authenticate with when connecting to
# the master - required
#master-password = <password>
#
# The port the master is listening on.
# optional - defaults to 3306
#master-port = <port>
#
# binary logging - not required for slaves, but recommended
#log-bin=mysql-bin
# Point the following paths to different dedicated disks
#tmpdir = /tmp/
#log-update = /path-to-dedicated-directory/hostname
# Uncomment the following if you are using InnoDB tables
#innodb_data_home_dir = C:\mysql\data/
#innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
#innodb_log_group_home_dir = C:\mysql\data/
#innodb_log_arch_dir = C:\mysql\data/
# You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 %
# of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high
#innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M
#innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 2M
# Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size
#innodb_log_file_size = 5M
#innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
#innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
#innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50
[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 516M
[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates
[isamchk]
key_buffer = 20M
sort_buffer_size = 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M
[myisamchk]
key_buffer = 20M
sort_buffer_size = 20M
read_buffer = 2M
write_buffer = 2M
[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout
[mysqld]
port=3306
Comments
Thank you very much!
This really helped.
Just change php.ini if your are on your local machine
When the file to be imported is too big, phpmyadmin said which variables can be changed in the php.ini file.
My default limit was 8MB and I just needed to import a 10MB file. In this case just changing php.ini works fine.
Simple solution.
..
good point but 10mb wouldn't be considered huge. this handbook page is more for dbs that are 500MB or 1GB+ in size.