Access denied for user 'homestead@localhost' .. in laravel 5

Question

I use the command php artisan migrate to migrate my db in laravel 5 .. it gives me an error:

exception \'PDOException\' with message \'SQLSTATE[HY000] [10

Answer 1

Sometime in the future. Try to clear your config first

php artisan config:clear. 

Close all the terminal /cmd windows and then restart terminal/CMD and this should get rid of the error message. See if it works.