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

In my case, it was actually root user permission problem. My Laravel configurations were all perfect, but later I found that it was root user permission problem since my MySQL configs were somehow changed.

• so i navigated to xampp folder > C:\xampp\mysql\bin
• searched for my.ini file and opened it in editor then added added skip-grant-tables in following place:

[mysqld] skip-grant-tables port=3306

and it worked.