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

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=ur_db_name
DB_USERNAME=ur_db_username
DB_PASSWORD=ur_dbuser_password