Disable secure priv for data loading on MySQL

Question

I\'m running MySQL 5.7 on a Windows 10 machine. I\'ve read through all the SO threads on this topic and still haven\'t figured out how to get my data to load and get past th

Answer 1

This works in MacOs Sierra 10.12.6:

use the command

mysql --help | more

and look for a line where it is written:

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

In my case I tried to create a my.cnf in the home directory but it did not work. The only solution I found is to create the file in the folder etc with

sudo vim /etc/my.cnf

and put inside it

[mysqld_safe]
[mysqld]
secure-file-priv = ""

Then you can check that everything works with

select @@GLOBAL.secure_file_priv;

inside mysql and check that the value is empty and different from NULL.

Finally save files in the directory /tmp and then move them in the directory you want. Alternatively (but possibly unsafe) use

chmod 1777 dir

where dir is the name of the directory in which you are writing the files.