wamp "MySQL Server has gone away" after 60seconds

posted by sacah on Aug 19, 2010 howto,

So working on my local wampserver with some large MyQL databases I was often getting the MySQL has gone away message, and timed it to occur after 60seconds. I binged the message and got a number of suggestions to increase the timeouts and cache sized of MySQL, but this didn't help at all.
So I looked in the php.ini and found under the MySQL section there is a mysql.connect_timeout=60 I increased this to 600 and the problem went away.

Hope this helps others having this same issue.