Laravel 6.4.1 SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused

Question

I am new in Laravel development. I have updated Xampp to 7.3.11 on my Mac Mojave 10.14.6. In Laravel project when I hit php artisan migrate command I got following error.

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Answer 1

I've come across this Error too by building up a new project with Laravel running in docker-compose for development.

My solution was to compare the prebuild .env-File with the actual credentials I used for building the database container. Especially I was using DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 instead of the correct service name of my docker-compose setup: DB_HOST=mysql