artisan migrate -> Illuminate\Database\QueryException : could not find driver

laradom

Hi guys,

Issue: "php artisan migrate" not working, what am I doing wrong?

After creating a Laravel test project called 'adam' (via "Quick app"/Laravel (zip), I run "php artisan make:auth" (successfully) in the Terminal.

Then I want to create the migrations with "php artisan migrate" but this gives me the following error:

My .env file is configured correctly as: (I added the db passwort 'root' via 'Menu/MySQL/Change root password")

What am doing wrong / How can I fix this?
Thanks for your tipps.

laradom

To elaborate:

I can login with 'root, 'root' in PHPMyAdmin (via 127.0.0.1/phpmyadmin or via localhost/phpmyadmin) and there's also a database called 'adam' without any tables in it:

flick36

@laradom Do you have pdo_mysql extension activated?

Right click on Laragon icon > PHP > Extensions

Make sure the the pdo_mysql extension is checked

laradom

Good idea, I checked it and it seems the extension "pdo_mysql" is activated:

laradom

I found it! My system was overloaded with prior XAMP installations and stuff, in short a total mess. Since there was another PHP folder under C:/PHP/ my php.ini file there referred to the extension folder "C:/PHP/ext" instead of to the laragon one in the laragon folder.

Solution:
I changed the key "extension_dir" in c:/PHP/win.ini from extension_dir = "C:/PHP/ext" to
extension_dir= "D:\laragon\bin\php\php-7.2.19-Win32-VC15-x64\ext" (where laragon is installed in my case).

and voilà it works:

Thanks anyways @flick36

flick36

Well, as a recommendation, you should just uninstall every XAMP instance you may have, including that php folder, and just let laragon do all the heavy work.

laradom

I agree now