Access denied for user 'homestead'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Question

I\'m on a Mac OS Yosemite using Laravel 5.0.

While in my local environment, I run php artisan migrate I keep getting :

Answer 1

If you have an error returning something like PDOException in Connector.php line 55: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database 'laravelu' is due to you are changing your batabase config as DB_DATABASE=laravelu. So for now you either:

1. Change the DB_DATABASE=[yourdatabase] or
2. create a database called laravelu in your phpmyadmin

this should be able to solve it

Answer 2

in my case (laravel 5+) i had to wrap my password in single quotation marks and clear config cache:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=database_name
DB_USERNAME=user_name
DB_PASSWORD='password'

and then run:

php artisan config:clear

Answer 3

Log into MYSQL - use the mysql database.

Select * from User;

Make sure that your HOST column is correct. It should be the host that you are connecting from (your application server) be it IP address, or DNS name. Also '%' will work (meaning wildcard) but will not be secure.

Answer 4

Check MySQL UNIX Socket

Find unix_socket location using MySQL

mysql -u homestead -p

mysql> show variables like '%sock%';
+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| Variable_name                           | Value                       |
+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| performance_schema_max_socket_classes   | 10                          |
| performance_schema_max_socket_instances | 322                         |
| socket                                  | /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock |
+-----------------------------------------+-----------------------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Then I go to config/database.php

I update this line : 'unix_socket' => '/tmp/mysql.sock',

to : 'unix_socket' => '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock',

That's it. It works for my as my 4th try.I hope these steps help someone. :D

Answer 5

I had the same issue and in the end It turned out that I just had to restart the server and start again

Ctrl + c then

php artisan serve