Hello,
I am trying to install LimeSurvey (2.52) on a Windows 7 desktop computer (4GB RAM) running XAMPP (Apache 2.4 / PHP 5.6.11 / 5.6.25).
I am able to get to the Pre-installation check screen, and everything checks out, but when I hit "Next", it gives me a "PDO::__construct(): MySQL server has gone away" error after a few minutes of trying to process.
Here is my settings in my.ini file. I did increase them based on other recommendations I've found on this forum.
Code:
[mysqld]
port= 3306
socket = "C:/xampp/mysql/mysql.sock"
basedir = "C:/xampp/mysql"
tmpdir = "C:/xampp/tmp"
datadir = "C:/xampp/mysql/data"
pid_file = "mysql.pid"
# enable-named-pipe
skip-external-locking
key_buffer = 384M
table_open_cache = 4096
sort_buffer_size = 2M
net_buffer_length = 8K
read_buffer_size = 4M
read_rnd_buffer_size = 128M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 128M
thread_cache_size = 8
query_cache_size = 256M
net_read_timeout = 600
net_write_timeout = 600
wait_timeout = 28800
I also have increased the variable for "max_allowed_packet" at the bottom of the file:
Code:
[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 512M
Any help or assistance would be greatly appreciated - I am looking forward to trying out LimeSurvey!
