content/data-base/how-to-include-an-external-file-in-mysql-config-file.md

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Title: "How to include an external file in MySQL config file?" Date: 2016-09-09 17:59:41 Categories: [data base] tags: [mariadb, mysql] Slug: how-to-include-an-external-file-in-mysql-config-file

Authors: sedlav

You must use one of the following directives:

!include to include specific file

!includedir to include a whole directory.

Edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf

# Include options found in myownfile.cnf
!include /etc/mysql/myownfile.cnf
# Include all confif found on myown.d dir
!includedir /etc/mysql/myown.d