Laravel's Artisan says nothing to migrate

Question

I installed migrations with php artisan migrate:install then created a migration with the php artisan migrate:make create_teams_table command. Now I try to run them with the following command that I made according to the official documentation:

php artisan migrate --path=app/foo/migrations/2014_01_21_143531_create_teams_table.php

This gives me the following on the console:

Nothing to migrate.

The migrations table in the database is empty and the new table isn't created neither. I don't understand why the documentation says foo in the path. What does foo mean and where does it comes from? First I tought that the path is wrong because of the foo thing and as I know the path is relative to the app folder so I changed it to app/database/migrations but it doesn't work. I also tried a lot of other path combination but none of them worked.

Did I entered the wrong path? In this case shouldn't the console show some other kind of helpfull message? What does foo mean? How can I run my migration?

Answer 1

That foo thing is just an example. Laravel will look for migrations to run in app/database/migrations on default. Try removing that --path parameter and see if it works.

Answer 2

Try this:

First:

C:\xampp\htdocs\laravel-master>php artisan migrate:reset

Rolled back: 2014_03_28_142140_user_table

Nothing to rollback.

second:

C:\xampp\htdocs\laravel-master>php artisan migrate

Migrated: 2014_03_28_142140_user_table

check the database.

Answer 3

The path argument is for creating a migration for example:

 php artisan migrate:make create_user_table --path=app/database/migrations/user_migrations/

But it is not documented to use while running the migrations, as it was in prior versions of laravel.

Dropping the --path argument should work in your case

Answer 4

What helped me:

php artisan config:cache
php artisan migrate

Answer 5

You don't need to move the migration file anywhere, just change its filename; for example, increase time integer and then run the migrate command with path pointing the migration. e.g: php artisan migrate --path="database/migrations/2019_07_06_145857_create_products_table.php"

Answer 6

For anyone who still cannot migrate their database:

Assume you have a file to migrate abc_migrate.php.

Firstly put your file inside the new folder named abc_folder. Then, enter this command php artisan migrate --path=database/migrations/abc_folder/.

You don't have to add file name at last of the directory path.

Done. Hope it helps.

Answer 7

The problem arises if the migrations table in the database is empty. So the solution is open up the tinker from the composer

$ php artisan tinker
>>> Schema::drop('users')
>>> Schema::drop('password_resets')
>>> Schema::drop('orders')
>>> exit
php artisan migrate

Here is the result of the above commands executed

nishanth@localhost:~/Desktop/html/hutch$ php artisan migrate

In Connection.php line 647: SQLSTATE[42S01]: Base table or view already exists: 1050 Table 'users' alre ady exists (SQL: create table users (id int unsigned not null auto_incr ement primary key, name varchar(255) not null, email varchar(255) not n ull, password varchar(255) not null, remember_token varchar(100) null, created_at timestamp null, updated_at timestamp null) default character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_unicode_ci)

In Connection.php line 449: SQLSTATE[42S01]: Base table or view already exists: 1050 Table 'users' alre ady exists

nishanth@localhost:~/Desktop/html/hutch$ php artisan migrate:rollback
Nothing to rollback.
nishanth@localhost:~/Desktop/html/hutch$ php artisan tinker
Psy Shell v0.8.17 (PHP 7.1.20-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 — cli) by Justin Hileman
>>> Schema::drop('users')
=> null
>>> Schema::drop('password_resets')
=> null
>>> Schema::drop('orders')
=> null
>>> exit
Exit:  Goodbye.
nishanth@localhost:~/Desktop/html/hutch$ php artisan migrate
Migrating: 2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table
Migrated:  2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table
Migrating: 2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table
Migrated:  2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table
Migrating: 2018_08_18_071213_create_orders_table
Migrated:  2018_08_18_071213_create_orders_table
nishanth@localhost:~/Desktop/html/hutch$ 

Also define the method down(), if it doesn't exist.
Otherwise, it'll show

SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1051 Unknown table 'XYZ.ABC' (SQL: drop table ABC)

/**
  * Reverse the migrations.
  *
  * @return void
  */
public function down()
{
    Schema::dropIfExists('ABC');
}