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

Match the .env file and the config.php file with your username and password and your hostname in the database settings.if they are not equal,relation will not connect.

Answer 2

Try to checkout the ".env" file in your root directory. It will be a hidden file. Correct these values.

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

Answer 3

Instead of using this

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=wdcollect
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

USE this

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=wdcollect
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=''

Answer 4

You need to run these two commands

php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:cache

Answer 5

Jeez! Thanks to umair.ashfr answer here below, I finally hit the nail with an issue that was eating my neurons.

I had a password like DB_PASSWORD=ffjdh5#fgr on my .env, and MySQL connection was gracefully saying that "SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user...", no matter what flavor of php artisan I was trying to run.

The problem was that "#" sign inside the password. BEWARE! That means the start of a comment, thus my password was silently truncated! The solution is to declare password like DB_PASSWORD="ffjdh5#fgr"

Regards

Answer 6

None of these worked for me when I deployed my website online on shared hosting, below is what I did that worked.

In the .env file, I changed

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

to

DB_HOST=localhost

and viola, it worked well as expected.