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I've been looking for my.ini that holds the mysql settings, but no such file was installed.

I need to change the following in order to increase the uploadable data into a database.

set-variable=max_allowed_packet=M

-Windows 2003 server
-latest xampp

Thanks in advance.

I've been looking for my.ini that holds the mysql settings, but no such file was installed.

\apachefriends\xampp\mysql\bin\my.cnf

There are a few possibilities:

/WINNT/my.ini
/my.cnf
(in the XAMPP install directory) mysql/bin/my.cnf

The one's that used may depend on whether you're starting MySQL from a .bat file, or running it as a service.

If you're not sure which one is the active one, make a temporary change to some parameter that you can easily inspect with phpMyAdmin >> "Show MySQL system variables", then restart MySQL.

Thanks
(in the XAMPP install directory) mysql/bin/my.cnf was correct