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

OK, found solution.

In the file database.php, by default, it comes the "mysql" part:

 'mysql' => [
            'driver' => 'mysql',
            'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
            'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
            'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
            'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
            'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
            'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
            'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
            'prefix' => '',
            'strict' => true,
            'engine' => null,
        ],

all you need to do is change the values :

'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),

by your database name (you must create one if you dont have any) and by that database username

like this

'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'MyDatabase'),
'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'MyUsername'),