SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'homestead'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Undutchable

I must be stupid, and I'm surprised no one else has had this problem yet but I run into the following problem:

After installing Laragon and following the videos on laracasts.com, I'm now running into the problem of not being able to run migrations.
Even when I try to run php artisan migrate:status I get the following error:

[PDOException]                                                                              
SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'homestead'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

My .env file looks like this (it's the default file)

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=homestead
DB_USERNAME=homestead
DB_PASSWORD=secret

All these settings are from the default installation. What am I doing wrong, and how can I fix it?

leokhoa

@Undutchable: No worry

First, click Start to ensure MySQL is running
then open **Terminal ** and create a database, example "homestead"

 mysqladmin -u root  create 'homestead'

Change your .env file to

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=homestead
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Undutchable

Thanks. It wasn't clear to me that the databases didn't exist yet.

leokhoa

You're welcome

farmanp

@leokhoa I immediately registered an account just to say this: i have spent three days trying to figure this out and nowhere have i seen to create a database the way you explained it. i am so happy. thank you so much.

leokhoa

@farmanp : You're welcome