Laravel PDOException SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database 'forge'

Question

I am using Laravel to connect to MySQL database.

I got this exception:

PDOException
SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database \'forge\'

Answer 1

Using phpMyAdmin (or whatever you prefer), I just created a database called "forge" and re-ran the php artisan migrate command and it all worked.

Answer 2

I had the same problem... If you have set your DB name and username and pass correctly in .env file and its still not working run the blow code in terminal:(this will clean the caches that left from previous apps)

php artisan cache:clear

and then run the command php artisan serve again (if you are running it stop and run it again)

Answer 3

I did all of them but didn't work, I find out should stop php artisan serve(Ctrl + C) and start php artisan serve again.

Answer 4

Here is my response to the problem described in the question.

in cmd write:

php artisan cache:clear

then try to do this code in your terminal

php artisan serve

note: this will start again the server

Answer 5

Encountered this issue quite a few times, note that I'm running laravel via Vagrant. So here are the fixes that work for me:

• Try again several times (refresh page)
• Reload vagrant (vagrant reload)

You may try reloading your server instead of vagrant (ie MAMP)

Answer 6

My APP_NAME variables in .env.example and .env and app.php were with space e.g. The App . Surounding that by ' and php artisan cache:clear and setting new generated app key to APP_KEY variable through env files and relaunching the server by php artisan serve solved this issue