PHP Artisan Migrate with MAMP and Unix Socket

Question

I was developing my application originally in Laravel 4.2 but have since decided to move it to the 5.0 version so that it covers a lot more changes and strengths that 5.0 has ov

Answer 1

I created a StackOverflow account solely to answer this question, and maybe help prevent someone going through the pain that I went through.

Answers that I found online ranged from changing 127.0.0.1 to localhost, changing the port from 3306 to 33060 and vice-versa, and making sure the unix_socket was correct.

The solution that solved my problem was changing:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=localhost

to

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=mysql

I hope this helps someone out there. It took me 4 hours to find this painfully obvious solution...and it was found 1min29s into an obscure YouTube video with under 1000 views.