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

Encountered this issue quite a few times, note that I'm running laravel via Vagrant. So here are the fixes that work for me:

• Try again several times (refresh page)
• Reload vagrant (vagrant reload)

You may try reloading your server instead of vagrant (ie MAMP)