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

clear your Cache php artisan cache:clear and then restart your server php artisan serve 127.0.0.1:8000

Answer 2

Note: Once it happened that I accidentally had a space before my database name such as mydatabase instead of mydatabase, phpmyadmin won't show the space, but if you run it from the command line interface of mysql, such as mysql -u the_user -p then show databases, you'll be able to see the space.

Answer 3

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=

Answer 4

first clear your cache using this command

php artisan cache:clear

Then restart the server using this command

php artisan serve

Answer 5

1. Stop the server then run php artisan cache:clear.
2. Start the server and should work now