Laravel SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused

Question

so I want to deploy my existing laravel porject into my digitalocean vps I user this tut and I upload my site successfully

also my env file is

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Answer 1

In your .env file, change DB_HOST from 127.0.0.1 to localhost

and then

1. php artisan cache:clear
2. php artisan route:clear
3. php artisan config:clear

4. php artisan view:clear

   This worked for me.