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

My APP_NAME variables in .env.example and .env and app.php were with space e.g. The App . Surounding that by ' and php artisan cache:clear and setting new generated app key to APP_KEY variable through env files and relaunching the server by php artisan serve solved this issue