Laravel app not connecting after deployment to live server

Question

After deploying my Laravel app to inMotion hosting, I am having issues connecting to the database. What is strange is that if I use a PHP script to test the connection, it works. However, when trying to login I get this error:

 SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user @'localhost' (using password: YES) (SQL: select * from `users` where `email` =.com limit

I am using the exact same username and password in the.env file as I did in the PHP test script. I have tried clearing the cache and also changing the password for the database as well as my username.

Answer 1

Better if you can clear the config cache and see. You can use the following command to clear the config cache in Laravel:

php artisan config:cache

Answer 2

Turns out it was the password in the.env file. It had special characters, so I had to add quotation marks around it.