I have migrated an existing Laravel 5 application and database. Only no migrations table was there yet, so I created this with the following command:
php artisan
Once you have the migration table created, insert these records:
insert into migrations(migration, batch) values('2015_12_08_134409_create_tables_script',1);
insert into migrations(migration, batch) values('2015_12_08_134410_create_foreign',1);
insert into migrations(migration, batch) values('2015_12_08_134411_create_index',1);
So artisan will understand those migrations as 'executed'