Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' - Laravel

Question

I have an application with Laravel 4, that runs in localhost correctly, but when I uploaded it in my host I received the error .

app>config>database.php file is:

Answer 1

This worked for me:

php artisan config:clear

Even though I changed the config details in the .env file, I was getting the Access denied error. Running the above command will clear configuration cache file and hence laravel will read the fresh data from the .env file.