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rmmlcny's avatar

The `php artisan migrate` is not working

Good day, I don't know what to do about this problem, I searched on the internet and I found nothing. When I php artisan migrate, it only created a migrations table in my database. It doesn't include the files in the migrations folder.

This is the response when I php artisan migrate,

Migration table created successfully.

Nothing to migrate.

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Sinnbeck's avatar

Are the files in a sub folder by any chance? The command will only look at the root of the migrations directory

tykus's avatar

@rmmlcny can you post an example of one of the migration files in the database/migrations directory that does not run?

rmmlcny's avatar

@tykus all the files in the database/migrations does not run, It's the default migration files when creating new Laravel 8 project.

2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table.php

2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table.php

2019_08_19_000000_create_failed_jobs_table.php

2019_12_14_000001_create_personal_access_tokens_table.php

tykus's avatar

@rmmlcny oh?!?!

If you execute php artisan migrate:status; does the command output even show these migration files as not ran?

tykus's avatar

@rmmlcny is this a completely vanilla Laravel 8 project?? Or, has someone modified the default migrations path in (for example) a Service Provider?

rmmlcny's avatar

@tykus It's completely vanilla, I did multiple installations of new Laravel project but it's still the same problem.

tykus's avatar

Can you try to force the migrations path?

php artisan migrate --path=database/migrations
rmmlcny's avatar

@tykus

I used mysql, and is running in a host 127.0.0.1 with port 3306.

I don't know where to check the logs, but I checked the logs/laravel.log, if I'm correct. One of the message shown here is:

[2022-01-20 12:00:12] local.ERROR: No arguments expected for "migrate" command, got "C:/Program Files/Git/database/migrations/2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table". {"exception":"[object] (Symfony\\Component\\Console\\Exception\\RuntimeException(code: 0): No arguments expected for \"migrate\" command, got \"C:/Program Files/Git/database/migrations/2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table\". at G:\\[My stuff]\\- Practice code\\Laravel\\example-app\\vendor\\symfony\\console\\Input\\ArgvInput.php:193)

tykus's avatar

@rmmlcny I'm stumped. I would start by source diving adding temporary dds in the MigrateCommand (and beyond) to see if it is finding the migration files at all; checking paths etc.

To be honest, this is such a basic feature of the framework; I would be surprised if the issue was with the laravel framework. You could try again in a completely new Laravel project; then with a SQLite database instead of mysql - something/anything to change the outcome(s)...

siangboon's avatar
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@rmmlcny why it is inside "C:/Program Files/Git/"? How about you try work on other none system directory instead of c:\program files, say d:\projects? How about you use the artisan command to create a new migration file and execute the migrate command again, will it migrate?

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rmmlcny's avatar

@siangboon Oh my God, thank you. So basically, I stored my project in the other drive which was the 'G:' drive and I tried to move it in the 'C:' drive, now it works. HOOOH! It took me 1 day to found the solution.

Snapey's avatar

open tinker. check if migrations is indeed empty

>>> DB::table('migrations')->get()

I'm wondering if you are connected to a different database

You can also check

>>> config('database')
rmmlcny's avatar

@Snapey I got empty in migrations

 Illuminate\Support\Collection {#3508
     all: [],
 }

In the config('database') , I got


 [
     "default" => "mysql",
     "connections" => [
       "sqlite" => [
         "driver" => "sqlite",
         "url" => null,
         "database" => "example",
         "prefix" => "",
         "foreign_key_constraints" => true,
       ],
       "mysql" => [
         "driver" => "mysql",
         "url" => null,
         "host" => "127.0.0.1",
         "port" => "3306",
         "database" => "example",
         "username" => "root",
         "password" => "",
         "unix_socket" => "",
         "charset" => "utf8mb4",
         "collation" => "utf8mb4_unicode_ci",
         "prefix" => "",
         "prefix_indexes" => true,
         "strict" => true,
         "engine" => null,
         "options" => [],
       ],
       "pgsql" => [
         "driver" => "pgsql",
         "url" => null,
         "host" => "127.0.0.1",
         "port" => "3306",
         "database" => "example",
         "username" => "root",
         "password" => "",
         "charset" => "utf8",
         "prefix" => "",
         "prefix_indexes" => true,
         "schema" => "public",
         "sslmode" => "prefer",
       ],
       "sqlsrv" => [
         "driver" => "sqlsrv",
         "url" => null,
         "host" => "127.0.0.1",
         "port" => "3306",
         "database" => "example",
         "username" => "root",
         "password" => "",
         "charset" => "utf8",
         "prefix" => "",
         "prefix_indexes" => true,
       ],
     ],
     "migrations" => "migrations",
     "redis" => [
       "client" => "phpredis",
       "options" => [
         "cluster" => "redis",
         "prefix" => "laravel_database_",
       ],
       "default" => [
         "url" => null,
         "host" => "127.0.0.1",
         "password" => null,
         "port" => "6379",
         "database" => "0",
       ],
       "cache" => [
         "url" => null,
         "host" => "127.0.0.1",
         "password" => null,
         "port" => "6379",
         "database" => "1",
       ],
     ],
   ]


SardarDev's avatar

I have same problem, artisan migrate create only migration table. And it take hours to figure it out, so i found answer on other site, but solution in my came, in my project path in folder name was brackets like this [] so i delete them and it start work

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