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my.cnf has no effect in MAMP 3

I'm trying to set the max_allowed_packet variable in MySQL (MAMP 3.0.6). I have created my.cnf in /Applications/MAMP/conf with the following content:

  [mysqld]
  max_allowed_packet = 256M

I have restarted MAMP but the changes refuse to pick up. PHPMyAdmin still shows 4,194,304 for "max allowed packet" in the "Variables" section.

What am I missing?

Solution

  • The path to my.cnf should be /Applications/MAMP/Library/my.cnf.