Comments on: How to Enable MySQL InnoDB Storage Engine on XAMPP

By: Eemon

Eemon — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:50:19 +0000

Thanks to Aditya for providing me this nice link. Helpful kit.

By: aditya

aditya — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:14:40 +0000

Nice post, it’s very useful.
thanks

By: lorenz

lorenz — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:42:18 +0000

Did you start mysql as service? if yes, see comment by Henry Cardona above. You can find where the right my.ini is located.

Hope it helps

By: paulrajj

paulrajj — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:25:33 +0000

@ Lorenz,
Thanks for sharing this.
I am using Xampp version 1.7.2 and mysql version 5.1.37
I did all the corresponding changes to my.cnf file under mysql/bin folder and restarted mysql server.
Still InnoDB feature is not been enabled and i dont find my.ini file under WINDOWS folder.
Is there any other way or option to enable this ?

By: Lorenz

Lorenz — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:56:56 +0000

Hi sachin,

Add the following lines to your my.ini

innodb_data_home_dir = “C:/Program Files/xampp/mysq”
innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
innodb_log_group_home_dir = “C:/Program Files/xampp/mysq”
innodb_log_arch_dir = “C:/Program Files/xampp/mysq”

innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M
innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 2M

innodb_log_file_size = 5M
innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50

Don’t forget to restart mysql server after doing the modification.

By: sachin

sachin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:45:49 +0000

In my localhost i found my.ini in windows folder(C:WINDOWSmy.ini)

But in that file only two lines are there
[WinMySQLAdmin]
Server=C:/Program Files/xampp/mysql/bin/mysqld-nt.exe

Please help me how to enable INNODB in xampp

By: Storage Spain

Storage Spain — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:01:41 +0000

Thanks for discussion about a valuable topic like MSQL and impliments of its for data storage.

By: Henry Cardona

Henry Cardona — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:47:06 +0000

It was difficult to find the start options of mysql in my installation.

Finally I found this information: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html

There are several lines that help me to understand:
“The appropriate –defaults-file setting can be found using the Services Manager:

Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services

Find the MySQL service in the list, right-click on it, and choose the Properties option. The Path to executable field contains the –defaults-file setting. ”

The right settings worked when I changed no the my.ini file but the my.cfg located in: C:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.cnf

C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt –defaults-file=C:\xampp\mysql\bin\my.cnf mysql

By: arifromdhoni

arifromdhoni — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:34:27 +0000

Thank you for your information. It works for me. But I’d installed XAMPP on C:/Program Files/xampp/ so all folders begin with C:/Program Files/xampp/ instead of C:/xampp/

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