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 attempt to provide a solution for those of you that have not found success in any of the already mentioned answers, I will share my solution.

Coming from Windows 10 I was of the understanding that the password for the root user was always blank thus my .env file looked as follows:

DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

On Mac, the password is defaulted to "root" also. Changing my .env file to look as follows fixed my issue:

DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=root