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

I had the same issue using SQLite. My problem was that DB_DATABASE was pointing to the wrong file location.

Create the sqlite file with the touch command and output the file path using php artisan tinker.

$ touch database/database.sqlite
$ php artisan tinker
Psy Shell v0.8.0 (PHP 5.6.27 — cli) by Justin Hileman
>>> database_path(‘database.sqlite’)
=> "/Users/connorleech/Projects/laravel-5-rest-api/database/database.sqlite"

Then output that exact path to the DB_DATABASE variable.

DB_CONNECTION=sqlite
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=/Users/connorleech/Projects/laravel-5-rest-api/database/database.sqlite
DB_USERNAME=homestead
DB_PASSWORD=secret

Without the correct path you will get the access denied error