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

I had the same problem... If you have set your DB name and username and pass correctly in .env file and its still not working run the blow code in terminal:(this will clean the caches that left from previous apps)

php artisan cache:clear

and then run the command php artisan serve again (if you are running it stop and run it again)