Is there a way to get the InnoDB engine

[in2mobile]

I would like to use the InnoDB engine on my tables but for some reason in PhpMyAdmin it is saying "InnoDB has been disabled for this MySQL server".

Is there a way that I can activate it by changing some settings. Or is this not possible.

Thank You

[Scory]

You have to activate the engine in the configuration file of MySQL, i.e. my.cnf in the bin-Folder or my.ini in Windows-Folder (depends on OS and Xampp Version).

Read and follow the instructions in the Configuration File (InnoDB is pre-configured but commented out).

After you have to restart MySQL.

[in2mobile]

A scory I've looked through all the folders but I can't seem to find where the file is at. I am running windows nt and have xampp version 1.6.5. I found the my.ini file but there wasn't any option for me to add the InnoDB engine.

[Scory]

Hm, I found several Config Files on my installation. There is one called "my_example.cnf", I will copy & paste it into this board. Adapt it to your needs:

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# Example MySQL config file for small systems.
#
# This is for a system with little memory (<= 64M) where MySQL is only used
# from time to time and it's important that the mysqld daemon
# doesn't use much resources.
#
# You can copy this file to
# /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 /xampp/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          = mysql

# Here follows entries for some specific programs

# The MySQL server
[mysqld]
basedir=/xampp/mysql
tmpdir=/xampp/tmp
datadir=/xampp/mysql/data

port            = 3306
socket          = mysql

old-passwords
character-set-server = latin1
collation-server = latin1_general_ci

skip-locking
key_buffer = 16K
max_allowed_packet = 1M
table_cache = 4
sort_buffer_size = 64K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 256K
net_buffer_length = 2K
thread_stack = 64K

# 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
# (using the "enable-named-pipe" option) will render mysqld useless!
#
#skip-networking
server-id   = 1

# Uncomment the following if you want to log updates
#log-bin=/xampp/mysql/data/mysql-bin

# Uncomment the following if you are NOT using BDB tables
skip-bdb

skip-innodb
# Uncomment the following if you are using InnoDB tables
#innodb_data_home_dir = /xampp/mysql/data/
#innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
#innodb_log_group_home_dir = /xampp/mysql/data/
#innodb_log_arch_dir = /xampp/mysql/data/
# You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 %
# of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high
#set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=16M
#set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=2M
# Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size
#set-variable = innodb_log_file_size=5M
#set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=8M
#innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1
#set-variable = innodb_lock_wait_timeout=50

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet=16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates

[isamchk]
key_buffer = 8M
sort_buffer_size = 8M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer = 8M
sort_buffer_size = 8M

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout

[WinMySQLadmin]
Server=/xampp/mysql/bin/mysqld.exe
#user=root
#password=