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

All you have to do is alter your .env file.

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

In front of DB_DATABASE, write the name of the database and in front of DB_USERNAME, use root.