Laravel 5 error SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'homestead'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Question

I have installed Laravel 5 successfully and changed MySQL credentials in database.php file in config directory to \'

mysql\' => [
            \'driver\'           


        

Answer 1

None of these worked for me when I deployed my website online on shared hosting, below is what I did that worked.

In the .env file, I changed

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

to

DB_HOST=localhost

and viola, it worked well as expected.