Laravel PDOException SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database 'forge'

Question

I am using Laravel to connect to MySQL database.

I got this exception:

PDOException
SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database \'forge\'

Answer 1

You have to clear the cache like that (because your old configuration is in you cache file) :

php artisan cache:clear

The pdo error comes from the fact Laravel use the pdo driver to connect to mysql