Alon Swartz's picture

No problem, just keep experimenting and learning, and you'll get there.

You are right that you need to edit my.cnf, which is what we did although indirectly. my.cnf imports all configuration in /etc/mysql/conf.d/

I'm out of tips, so I will need to perform the changes locally and see if I can replicate the issues you are having. I'll try get to it later in the day and report back my findings...