What is the location of mysql client ".my.cnf" in XAMPP for Windows?

What is the location of mysql client .my.cnf using XAMPP in Windows?

Clarification: This file does not exist by default, so when you create it, where should you place it, in order for the command line client to read it automatically?

Solution 1:

Type this:

mysql --help 

Then look at the output. There is a block of text about 3/4 the way down describing what files it finds its defaults .my.cnf from. Here is an example from XAMPP v3.2.1:

Default options are read from the following files in the given order:
C:\Windows\my.ini C:\Windows\my.cnf C:\my.ini C:\my.cnf C:\xampp\mysql\my.ini C:\xampp\mysql\my.cnf C:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini C:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.cnf

Your setup may differ. You will have to run the command to check the actual paths on your particular system.

Solution 2:

Look in the MySQL config file C:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.ini.

At the top of that file are some comments:

# You can copy this file to
# C:/xampp/mysql/bin/my.cnf to set global options,
# mysql-data-dir/my.cnf to set server-specific options (in this
# installation this directory is C:/xampp/mysql/data) or
# ~/.my.cnf to set user-specific options.

There it tells you where to find your .my.cnf file.

Solution 3:

After checking the default locations on Win7 with mysql --help and unable to find any config file, I manually searched for my.ini and found it at C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server x.y (yep, ProgramData, not Program Files).

Though I used an own my.ini at Program Files, the other configuration overwrote my settings.

Solution 4:

Go to control panel → services, look for MySQL and right click choose properties. If there, in “path to EXE file”, there is a parameter like

--defaults-file="X:\path\to\my.ini"

this is the file the server actually uses (independent of what mysql --help prints).

Solution 5:

Using the XAMPP control panel, click on the Config button for MySQL and you'll find the file it's currently using.