MySQL LOAD_FILE returns NULL

Question

I want to get SQL LOAD_FILE function to work and have read every single question/answer + documentation about this, but here is what\'s been happening.

When

Answer 1

So I been banging my head against this issue with finally found to to resolve it:

mysql> select LOAD_FILE('/var/www/upload/test.zip');
+---------------------------------------+
| LOAD_FILE('/var/www/upload/test.zip') |
+---------------------------------------+
| NULL                                  |
+---------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

The problem is the secure_file_priv is not set. To see where it is pointed to do the following query:

Perform query:

select @@GLOBAL.secure_file_priv;

To point to the area that you are looking to pull file What I did was to add the following to the end mysqld.conf

secure_file_priv =  /var/www/upload.

Restarted mysql and test with

mysql> select LOAD_FILE('/var/www/upload/test.zip');
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