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lnc013's avatar

Fail to run php artisan migrate

I am new to laravel.

I am picking other people's work

after getting my friend's code from git.

I try to build table and dbs as same as the

environment my friend using.

I run 'php artisan migrate' in ubuntu 14.04 cli

It return ' [InvalidArgumentException] Database [] not configured'

What is that mean and how to solve the problem?

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lnc013's avatar

I am using: PHP 5.5.9 Mysql 5.5.41 Laravel 5.1

bashy's avatar

What database settings have you setup in .env or /config/database.php?

lnc013's avatar

The .env is:

APP_ENV=local APP_DEBUG=true APP_KEY=123ABCD..........sdff (32 char alphanumeric key)

DB_HOST=localhost DB_DATABASE=mydb DB_USERNAME=myname DB_PASSWORD=1234abcd

CACHE_DRIVER=file SESSION_DRIVER=file QUEUE_DRIVER=sync

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp MAIL_HOST=mailtrap.io MAIL_PORT=2525 MAIL_USERNAME=null MAIL_PASSWORD=null MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null

The database.php is:

return [

'fetch' => PDO::FETCH_CLASS,

'default' => env('DB_CONNECTION', 'mysql'),

'connections' => [

    'sqlite' => [
        'driver'   => 'sqlite',
        'database' => storage_path('database.sqlite'),
        'prefix'   => '',
    ],

    'mysql' => [
        'driver'    => 'mysql',
        'host'      => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
        'database'  => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
        'username'  => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
        'password'  => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
        'charset'   => 'utf8',
        'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
        'prefix'    => '',
        'strict'    => false,
    ],

    'pgsql' => [
        'driver'   => 'pgsql',
        'host'     => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
        'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
        'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
        'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
        'charset'  => 'utf8',
        'prefix'   => '',
        'schema'   => 'public',
    ],

    'sqlsrv' => [
        'driver'   => 'sqlsrv',
        'host'     => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
        'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
        'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
        'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
        'charset'  => 'utf8',
        'prefix'   => '',
    ],

],

'migrations' => 'migrations',

'redis' => [

    'cluster' => false,

    'default' => [
        'host'     => '127.0.0.1',
        'port'     => 6379,
        'database' => 0,
    ],

],

];

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