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 I wanted to connect to the database installed on windows that i used to access through workbench, so i replaced localhost with the ip address which i obtained by typing ipconfig on windows command prompt