Laravel 5.2 artisan 'migrate' is not working

Question

The title description pretty much says it all. When I run php artisan migrate inside my project's folder (in my Macbook), it errors out with the following:

  [PDOException]                                    
  SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory 

I have taken the time to browse around the error and try some fixes, but the only way I got it to work is if I actually ssh into my vagrant box (homestead) and run the migration from there, but I am trying to actually run it from my terminal window locally without ssh-ing into homestead.

Do you know what can be causing this problem?

Thank you for all your help in advance!

Cheers!

UPDATE:

Before I thought it was due to MAMP being installed in my computer. But currently I am not using any servers or anything like that that can be messing with port 3306 since I have a fresh El Capitan install.

Answer 1

Check out the answers here: PDOException SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory

You'll need to change the hostname in your mysql config according to this:

Laravel 4: Change "host" in the app/config/database.php file from "localhost" to "127.0.0.1"

Laravel 5: Change "DB_HOST" in the .env file from "localhost" to "127.0.0.1"

Laravel w/ Homestead: Use the directions above for the Laravel version you are using BUT change "localhost" to the IP address specified in Homestead.yaml. The default is "192.168.10.10" instead of "127.0.0.1"

Answer 2

i also faced this problem. i solved this problem.

Just edit your .env file. Change DB_HOST=localhost to DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

and the funny think is, the reverse is true in some cases.