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

All these answers seem like heavy lifting...

I just created a .env file; edited my bootstrap/app.php file, and uncommented the following line...

Dotenv::load(__DIR__.'/../');

Hope this helps someone