Laravel 5 error SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'homestead'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Question

I have installed Laravel 5 successfully and changed MySQL credentials in database.php file in config directory to '

mysql' => [
            'driver'    => 'mysql',
            'host'      => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
            'database'  => env('DB_DATABASE', 'wdcollect'),
            'username'  => env('DB_USERNAME', 'root'),
            'password'  => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
            'charset'   => 'utf8',
            'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
            'prefix'    => '',
            'strict'    => false,
        ],

I don't want to use homestead and I have changed.env file to

APP_ENV=local
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_KEY=apLIzEMOgtc5BUxdT9WRLSvAoIIWO87N

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=wdcollect
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

CACHE_DRIVER=file
SESSION_DRIVER=file
QUEUE_DRIVER=sync

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null

I don't understand that why it's saying that access denied for 'homestead'@'localhost'

Answer 1

It's working now. I had to restart server. Thanks

Answer 2

I was facing the same issue. Everything was fine but in

bootstrap/cache/config.php

always had the incomplete password. Upon digging further, realized that the password had '#' character in it and that was getting dropped. As '#' is used to mark a line as a comment.

Answer 3

You need to run these two commands

php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:cache

Answer 4

None of these worked for me when I deployed my website online on shared hosting, below is what I did that worked.

In the .env file, I changed

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

to

DB_HOST=localhost

and viola, it worked well as expected.

Answer 5

I spent hours on this :-( and finally, it was really easy to hack

BEFORE

DB_PASSWORD=#Root2020$

UPDATED

DB_PASSWORD="#Root2020$"

I think the problem was # in the password, that's why I had to write my password into quotation marks.

Answer 6

if you before use localhost and root your file be cached

remove /bootstap/cache/config.php

Answer 7

This works to me:

php artisan config:clear
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:cache

Thanks.

Answer 8

我遇到了同样的问题，所以我意识到.env文件不接受特殊字符，因为我的密码有这些字符，我在config/database.php文件中添加了密码。

Answer 9

I Faced Same Problem what i did

1. php artisan cache:clear
2. php artisan config:cache

but Same problem found than i run this artisan command

php artisan view:clear

Hope it will helpful.

Answer 10

Jeez! Thanks to umair.ashfr answer here below, I finally hit the nail with an issue that was eating my neurons.

I had a password like DB_PASSWORD=ffjdh5#fgr on my .env, and MySQL connection was gracefully saying that "SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user...", no matter what flavor of php artisan I was trying to run.

The problem was that "#" sign inside the password. BEWARE! That means the start of a comment, thus my password was silently truncated! The solution is to declare password like DB_PASSWORD="ffjdh5#fgr"

Regards

Answer 11

Instead of using this

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=wdcollect
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

USE this

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=wdcollect
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=''

Answer 12

You do not need to set credentials in database.php file. It is enough if you have credentials in .env

If you are able to login to database directly then this password must work. It can be possible that you are having different environment than "local" which is defined in this file. Test is with "php artisan env"

Answer 13

Try to checkout the ".env" file in your root directory. It will be a hidden file. Correct these values.

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

Answer 14

Declare password like DB_PASSWORD="2o0@#5TGR1NG" in .env file

If # sign include in your password then password will declare in between " ".

Answer 15

Please update below file.

vendor - .env - on line#7

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

Instead of homestead user your database, username and password. This should work for you.

Answer 16

If you are on MAMP

Check your port number as well generally it is

Host localhost

Port 8889

User root

Password root

Socket /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock

Answer 17

In my case, it was actually root user permission problem. My Laravel configurations were all perfect, but later I found that it was root user permission problem since my MySQL configs were somehow changed.

• so i navigated to xampp folder > C:\\xampp\\mysql\\bin
• searched for my.ini file and opened it in editor then added added skip-grant-tables in following place:

[mysqld] skip-grant-tables port=3306

and it worked.

Answer 18

/bootstap/cache/（手动删除所有缓存文件）

Answer 19

In my case problem was # in the password, that's why Laravel showing error, you had to write password into quotation marks if you have special character in your password.

DB_PASSWORD=Test@123##   //not working without double quotes.

DB_PASSWORD="Test@123##" //working with double quotes. 

Answer 20

Pls Update .env file

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

After then restart server

Answer 21

I came up with this too... then I solve it by putting the database information directly in " database.php " In your case, I would change the information like this

mysql' => [
        'driver'    => 'mysql',
        'host'      => 'localhost',
        'database'  => 'wdcollect',
        'username'  => 'root',
        'password'  => '',
        'charset'   => 'utf8',
        'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
        'prefix'    => '',
        'strict'    => false,
    ],

and don't forget to change your setting in XAMPP's config.inc

['auth_type'] = 'config';
['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
['Servers'][$i]['password'] = '';
['AllowNoPassword'] = true;

Answer 22

将 .env 文件和 config.php 文件与您的用户名和密码以及数据库设置中的主机名匹配。如果它们不相等，则关系将不会连接。

Answer 23

The .env file should have same database name , username and password as in the mysql database and check whether all permissions are granted to the user for accessing the database or not. I solved my problem by adding the cpanel username in front of database name and username like jumbo_admingo and jumbo_user1 respectively where jumbo is my cpanel username and admingo is the database name i created in mysql and user1 is the user which has been provided the access to the database admingo. THIS SOLVED MY PROBLEM.

Answer 24

Reason is the old database credentials are cached /bootstap/cache/config.php

In the .env file, I modified it as follow

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

Then removed that file

/bootstap/cache/config.php 

If the issue still there you might try the following.

php artisan config:clear php artisan cache:clear php artisan config:cache

Exit vagrant by writing the exit command Then restart vargarnt/homestead config

vagrant reload --provision

Then opened vagrant again

Vagrant Up
Vagrant ssh

Answer 25

1. Edit the file .env in your laravel root directory. make looks as in below :

    DB_HOST=localhost DB_DATABASE=laravel DB_USERNAME=root DB_PASSWORD=your-root-pas

2. Also create one database in phpmyadmin named, "laravel".

3. Run below commands :

    php artisan cache:clear php artisan config:cache php artisan config:clear php artisan migrate

It worked for me, XAMPP with Apache and MySQL.

Answer 26

Open terminal on XAMPP > go to /opt/lampp/htdocs/project_name > run php artisan migrate

.env file

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_PORT=8080
DB_DATABASE=database_name
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Answer 27

in my case I wanted to connect to the database installed on windows that i used to access through workbench, so i replaced localhost with the ip address which i obtained by typing ipconfig on windows command prompt

Answer 28

Best solution is. Don't use specials character in db user password. If you really want to use special character then use double cote "" After changing password in .env file you must have to remove /bootstap/cache/config.php config.php file or rename with others.

Answer 29

Just have to delete next file: bootstap/cache/config.php

Answer 30

1. just run it in terminal

   php artisan optimize

2. then restart

   php artisan serve

Answer 31

It happens when password contains special charecters In that case we can put the password into string like

DB_PASSWORD="your password"

In my case that works fine