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I'm a newbie running laravel 8 on Docker and try to create tables on db, it gives following error.
This application running as expected before but had to destroy images to switch to another project. now I cannot create default tables using php artisan migrate command.
Illuminate\Database\QueryException
SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = example_app and table_name = migrations and table_type = 'BASE TABLE')
at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php:712
Check your ,env and make sure you have the correct information there.
It should look something like this.
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=<your databases' name>
DB_USERNAME=<user name>
DB_PASSWORD=<password>
If that still doesn't work, try logging in from the terminal
mysql -u<your username> -p
@Tray2 Thanks for your reply. my DB connection details are fine. I can see the databases when i tried to mysql container terminal.
@alexCharm Are you using Docker?
@Tray2 yes. im using docker
@alexCharm And you have access to the Mysql container from the php container?
I think this might help you
Show your env (db section) as tray said and your docker-compose.yml. It's important that the host is the internal name of the mysql container, not 127.0.0.1 or localhost
How did you run the migrate command? Inside the container?
@Sinnbeck Thank you for your reply. I did replace DB_HOST in .env file to mysql container name then migration command works as expected.
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