While importing a large MySQL database through PHPMyAdmin on a MAMP local server during the process of migrating a website I received one of the least descriptive errors I have ever seen. The error is actually kind of funny to me, but it tells me absolutely nothing about what caused the error.

#2006 - MySQL server has gone away

After just a short few minutes of research I found the solution to the problem and corrected it by setting a higher limit to the max_allowed_packet argument MySQL accepts on startup. Here is where I found information on the solution. Still a really vague and odd error message to receive. I wonder who came up with that?

Tagged: Error Messages, errors, MySQL, PHP, PHPMyAdmin