by Chris Walsh.
Hi Ken,
I don't have a my.cnf in my MySQL, PHP or Apache folder trees.
I do have a my.ini in my MySQL folder which I believe is the one being picked up my MySQL. However this doesn't have a max_allowed_packet setting in it.
I am using MySQL 5.5 on a Windows environment.
I have added the setting under the [mysqld] section of my.ini and restarted MySQL server.
... and this has resolved the problem! Thanks Ken.
I am going to open the zip file and see what the largest binary file is that it most likely tried to insert into the database. I am guessing 100M might be overkill so bringing it down to a smaller value might be a good idea.
Thanks again.
Chris