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

Jeez! Thanks to umair.ashfr answer here below, I finally hit the nail with an issue that was eating my neurons.

I had a password like DB_PASSWORD=ffjdh5#fgr on my .env, and MySQL connection was gracefully saying that "SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user...", no matter what flavor of php artisan I was trying to run.

The problem was that "#" sign inside the password. BEWARE! That means the start of a comment, thus my password was silently truncated! The solution is to declare password like DB_PASSWORD="ffjdh5#fgr"

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