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

From your question, it seems you are running homestead. In that case, make sure you're running the commands in your VM. Many devs including me often make mistake and run artisan commands outside of VM which the commands will try to connect to our local database accessible through localhost which is different from the database used by homestead. Cd to your Homestead directory and run

vagrant ssh

then cd into code if that is where you keep your projects and cd into your project and run php artisan migrate again I hope this will help other people.