Laravel/MySQL database connection

Question

I have an unusual problem with my Laravel 4.2 project connecting to MySQL database. This is my database.php

'mysql' => array(
            'driver'    => 'mysql',
            'host'      => 'localhost',
            'database'  => 'database_name',
            'username'  => 'root',
            'password'  => '',
            'charset'   => 'utf8',
            'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
            'prefix'    => '',
        )

I use XAMPP for Ubuntu.

First, I've created a database in phpMyAdmin. When I tried to run php artisan migrate , it gave me an error of unknown database 'database_name' . I thought it was silly since I've just created a database in phpMyAdmin. Then I tried creating a database through the command line and tried running the migration again. It worked. Tables were created under the database I specified when I run show tables in the command line. It seems to me that the Laravel project is connected to a different mysql server than the phpMyAdmin. Is that even possible? How can I solve this problem?

I've been trying to solve this for hours but still, no luck. Hope someone can help me with my problem.

Answer 1

I solved the problem by following the solution in the link provided by Bulk. I just have to run sudo /opt/lampp/bin/php artisan migrate instead of the plain php artisan migrate . With this, artisan will use the MySQL version provided by XAMPP.