MySQL my cnf file - Found option without preceding group

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I m trying to connect to my DB in Ubuntu remotely but I receive error message when trying to mysql -u root -p      Found option without preceding group in config file   etc mysql my cnf at line  1   my cnf looks like    mysqld  user          mysql socket         var run mysqld mysqld sock port          3306 basedir        usr datadir        var lib mysql tmpdir         tmp bind-address           0 0 0 0 key buffer        16M max allowed packet    16M thread stack          192K thread cache size         8 myisam-recover           BACKUP query cache limit     1M query cache size          16M log error                   var log mysql error log expire logs days      10 max binlog size           100M   client  port          3306 socket         var run mysqld mysqld sock   mysqld safe  socket         var run mysqld mysqld sock nice          0   mysqldump  quick quote-names max allowed packet    16M   mysql    isamchk  key buffer        16M

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Missing config header  Just add  mysqld  as first line in the  etc mysql my cnf file   Example   mysqld  default-time-zone     08 00    Afterwards  remember to restart your MySQL Service   sudo mysqld stop sudo mysqld start

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Charset encoding  Check the charset encoding of the file  Make sure that it is in ASCII   Use the od command to see if there is a UTF-8 BOM at the beginning  for example

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What worked for me     Open my ini with Notepad    Encoding --  convert to ANSI  save

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it is because of letters or digit infront of  mysqld   just check the leeters or digit anything is not required before  mysqld    it may be something like  0 mysqld  then this error will occur

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I had this problem when I installed MySQL 8 0 15 with the community installer  The my ini file that came with the installer did not work correctly after it had been edited  I did a full manual install by downloading that zip folder  I was able to create my own my ini file containing only the parameters that I was concerned about and it worked     download zip file from MySQL website unpack the folder into C  program files MySQL MySQL8 0 within the MySQL8 0 folder that you unpacked the zip folder into  create a text file and save it as my ini include the parameters in that my ini file that you are concerned about  so something like this just ensure that there is already a folder created for the datadir or else initialization won t work      mysqld  basedire C  program files MySQL MySQL8 0 datadir D  MySQL Data     continue with whatever parameters you want to include  initialize the data directory by running these two commands in the command prompt   cd C  program files MySQL MySQL8 0 bin mysqld --default-file C  program files MySQL MySQL8 0 my ini --initialize  install the MySQL server as a service by running these two commands   cd C  program files MySQL MySQL8 0 bin mysqld --install --default-file C  program files MySQL MySQL8 0 my ini  finally  start the server for the first time by running these two commands   cd C  program files MySQL MySQL8 0 bin mysqld --console

[mysql] MySQL my.cnf file - Found option without preceding group

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