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

sometimes its because DB_CONNECTION=mysql and you want to use SQLite database. A solution to that is to make DB_CONNECTION=sqlite. hope it helps

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=C:\xampp\htdocs\jbtibl\database\database.sqlite
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=