PDOException SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory

Question

I believe that I\'ve successfully deployed my (very basic) site to fortrabbit, but as soon as I connect to SSH to run some commands (such as php artisan migrate

Answer 1

As of Laravel 5 the database username and password goes in the .env file that exists in the project directory, e.g.

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_DATABASE=db1
DB_USERNAME=user1
DB_PASSWORD=pass1

As you can see these environment variables are overriding the 'forge' strings here so changing them has no effect:

    'mysql' => [
        'driver'    => 'mysql',
        'host'      => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
        'database'  => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
        'username'  => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
        'password'  => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
        'charset'   => 'utf8',
        'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
        'prefix'    => '',
        'strict'    => false,
    ],

More information is here https://mattstauffer.co/blog/laravel-5.0-environment-detection-and-environment-variables