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

After change .env with the new configuration, you have to stop the server and run it again (php artisan serve). Cause laravel gets the environment when it's initialized the server. If you don't restart, you will change the .env asking yourself why the changes aren't taking place!!