I'm not super experienced at this but I've been trying to get the mySQL strict_mode setting to be enforced permanently so that I can install and set up the database to install WHMCS.
Problem is I have seen many different posts and people saying you should alter the my.cnf file and put in the following sql_mode setting:
[mysqld]
sql_mode="TRADITIONAL,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER"
I've also tried just the following:
sql_mode= "TRADITIONAL"
There doesn't seem to be any effect from these. When I restart mySQL and then check the mode using this:
mysql> SELECT @@GLOBAL.sql_mode;
I get the following which apparently means I'm still in strict mode:
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | @@GLOBAL.sql_mode | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | STRICT_TRANS_TABLES,STRICT_ALL_TABLES,NO_ZERO_IN_DATE,NO_ZERO_DATE,ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,TRADITIONAL,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
I can however set the strict mode temporarily off for the session using this:
mysql> SET GLOBAL sql_mode ="";
The problem is that setting won't hold when the machine is restarted and then it reverts back to strict mode.
Does anyone have some more definitive suggestion on how I can get strict mode permanently off in MySQL on ubuntu to allow me to use WHMCS?
I can't seem to find any other config files that may be overriding this strict mode setting, but I could be missing something that is.
