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

SELinux might be the cause.

Set this rule and try again:

sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db=1