Store XML Config File in Database as a Field, or Store the path of it? -

I have a text file, it's an XML file. This is the configuration that users upload.

Should I now store this file directly in the database? Or should I put the file in a directory, and inside my db, I point to the location of this file?

Store it in DB. In this way it is all under the same security and auditing that your remaining data in the database.