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

php laravel laravel-5 database-migration homestead
cyber8200 picture cyber8200 · Apr 20, 2015 · Viewed 283.4k times · Source

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

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

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

Configuration

Here is my .env

APP_ENV=local
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_KEY=*****

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

app\config\database.php

   'mysql'       => [
    'driver'      => 'mysql',
    'host'        => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
    'database'    => env('DB_DATABASE', 'homestead'),
    'username'    => env('DB_USERNAME', 'homestead'),
    'password'    => env('DB_PASSWORD', 'secret'),
    'unix_socket' => '/tmp/mysql.sock',
    'charset'     => 'utf8',
    'collation'   => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
    'prefix'      => '',
    'strict'      => false,
    ]

How do I avoid this kind of error ?

I've tried :

1

in app/database.php

Replace localhost with 127.0.0.1

'host'=> env('DB_HOST', 'localhost') -->'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1')

Also, in .env

DB_HOST=localhost --> DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

2

Try specify environment

php artisan migrate --env=local

3

Check to see if the MySQL is running by run

mysqladmin -u homestead -p status Enter password: secret

I got

Uptime: 21281 Threads: 3 Questions: 274 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 327 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 80 Queries per second avg: 0.012

Which mean it's running.

4

Check MySQL UNIX Socket (This step work for me)

Answer

Abdou Tahiri picture Abdou Tahiri · Apr 21, 2015

The reason of Access denied for user ‘homestead’@’localhost’ laravel 5 error is caching-issue of the .env.php file cause Laravel 5 is using environment based configuration in your .env file.

1. Go to your application root directory and open .env file (In ubuntu may be it’s hidden so press ctrl+h to show hidden files & if you are in terminal then type : ls -a to show hidden files) in your editor and change database configuration setting. then save your .env file

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

2. then restart your apache server/web server. and refresh your page and you have done

3. If still issue try to run below command to clear the old configuration cache file.

php artisan config:clear

Now you are done with the error

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