Laravel PDOException SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database 'forge'

Question

I am using Laravel to connect to MySQL database.

I got this exception:

PDOException
SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database \'forge\'

Answer 1

Using phpMyAdmin (or whatever you prefer), I just created a database called "forge" and re-ran the php artisan migrate command and it all worked.