Laravel migration (errno: 150 “Foreign key constraint is incorrectly formed”)

Question

I have an orders table and a have a sell_shipping_labels which references orders.id as a foreign. However when I run the Laravel migration I get th

Answer 1

I had the same problem and fixed the issue setting the database type to innoDB

The tables created before the migration where 'MyISAM from an legacy system and the migrated are innoDB by default, so the mix of table types were an issue in my case.