2.3.1. MySQL Installation Layout on Microsoft Windows
For MySQL 5.6 on Windows, the default installation
directory is C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server
5.6. Some Windows users prefer to install
in C:\mysql, the directory that formerly was
used as the default. However, the layout of the subdirectories
remains the same.
All of the files are located within this parent directory, using
the structure shown in the following table.
Table 2.4. Default MySQL Installation Layout for Microsoft Windows
Log files, databases (Windows XP, Windows Server 2003)
The Windows system variable %ALLUSERSPROFILE%
defaults to C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data
%PROGRAMDATA%\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.6\
Log files, databases (Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and newer)
The Windows system variable %PROGRAMDATA% defaults to
C:\ProgramData
examples
Example programs and scripts
include
Include (header) files
lib
Libraries
scripts
Utility scripts
share
Miscellaneous support files, including error messages, character set
files, sample configuration files, SQL for database
installation
If you install MySQL using the MySQL Installer, this package creates and sets
up the data directory that the installed server will use, and also
creates a pristine “template” data directory named
data under the installation directory. After
an installation has been performed using this package, the
template data directory can be copied to set up additional MySQL
instances. See Section 5.6, “Running Multiple MySQL Instances on One Machine”.
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