Setting up Laravel on a Mac php artisan migrate error: No such file or directory [duplicate]

Answer 1

Another solution is to add the port number in the host key. In this case MAMP uses the 8889 by default:

'mysql' => array(
    'driver'    => 'mysql',
    'host'      => 'localhost:8889',
    'database'  => 'essays',
    'username'  => 'root',
    'password'  => 'root',
    'charset'   => 'utf8',
    'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
    'prefix'    => '',
),