By Default phpmyadmin can import data on your mysql database up to 2MB of data and beyond that will be an error.  This has been a big problem  by most webmasters and sometimes this can be a barrier to stop improving the sites.  Before I kept on searching what to use to import a large data on my MySQL database and all I can see is BigDump.  It is a software used for large and very large MySQL Dumps which is also an option to import large data on your database.

If you find BigDump a pain in the head then another way to solve the problem is to edit your php.ini file.  All you need to do is open your php.ini file and edit the line

Setting 2M to a larger size will fix the problem.  One problem with this is that it will affect the web server’s runtime limit and could throw an error if you dump a very large data.

Most web developers use a “third party” web server which comes in a package such as WAMP or XAMPP resulting to miss configuration of the web server to perform several capabilities.  One of which is allowing htaccess configuration to take over the webserver’s main configuration.  Even apache itself usage of htaccess is disabled by default and configuring the server is needed to allow htaccess on your server.  Below is how to allow htaccess on your web server:

Open your Apache httpd.conf Configuration File and “uncomment” the line

You can “uncomment” it by removing the number sign “#” resulting to

After removing the number sign you need to change the AllowOverride directive, the default configuration is:

It should be changed to :

You also need to change the line

to

this can be found where you set your DocumentRoot where in my case is set to (</Directory “D:/HTDOCS”>).  After configuring Apache you need to restart the server for the changes to take effect.