Based on this information, I found that I needed to add these items to make these updates in the my.cnf file:   Both settings referenced in the documentation (4.3+) but finding a specific place to set it required a little more digging:   /etc/my.cnf.d/mariadb-server.cnf   [mysqld] secure_file_priv='' max_allowed_packet=1073741824 ... View more