Question

I’ve read about MySQL replication and i need to change some configuration but I can’t find the file my.cnf or my.ini. I don’t know which MySQL version I have but I’ve downloaded it a long time ago, as a .zip. My box runs Windows 7 64.
Where can i find this file? Should I create it? Where?
Thank you.

Answer 1

I do not have Window present at the moment, but I think it should reside in the C:\WINDOWS\ directory.

When invoking help on GNU/Linux with mysql --help it shows (excerpt):

Default options are read from the following files in the given order:
/etc/my.cnf /etc/mysql/my.cnf /usr/etc/my.cnf ~/.my.cnf 

Maybe you can get the same information on Windows, too.

Btw: with mysql --version you can get your current version.