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

Reason is the old database credentials are cached /bootstap/cache/config.php

In the .env file, I modified it as follow

 DB_HOST=localhost
 DB_DATABASE=homestead
 DB_USERNAME=homestead
 DB_PASSWORD=secret

Then removed that file

/bootstap/cache/config.php 

If the issue still there you might try the following.

php artisan config:clear php artisan cache:clear php artisan config:cache

Exit vagrant by writing the exit command Then restart vargarnt/homestead config

vagrant reload --provision

Then opened vagrant again

Vagrant Up
Vagrant ssh