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

Answer 2

I was facing the same issue. Everything was fine but in

bootstrap/cache/config.php

always had the incomplete password. Upon digging further, realized that the password had '#' character in it and that was getting dropped. As '#' is used to mark a line as a comment.

Answer 3

if you before use localhost and root your file be cached

remove /bootstap/cache/config.php

Answer 4

Open terminal on XAMPP > go to /opt/lampp/htdocs/project_name > run php artisan migrate

.env file

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=8080
DB_DATABASE=database_name
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Answer 5

I spent hours on this :-( and finally, it was really easy to hack

BEFORE

DB_PASSWORD=#Root2020$

UPDATED

DB_PASSWORD="#Root2020$"

I think the problem was # in the password, that's why I had to write my password into quotation marks.

Answer 6

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.