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Changing MySQL-varibles in Homestead

Hi!

I working on application build on LIKE-searchs and want to change the variable "ft_min_word_len" to 3 instead of the default value of 4 in MySQL. I know I can just open the my.cnf file and add it there but I want to do from the install.sh-file for Homestead so the other developers in the team get the exact same environment.

I have tried to add sudo mysqld --ft_min_word_len=3

with no success.

So if anyone have any tip how to do it I'm more than happy for it.

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I solved it by adding

sudo echo -e "[mysqld]\nft-min-word-len = 3" > /etc/mysql/conf.d/my.cnf

to install.sh. That will override the original my.cnf in /etc/mysql/

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