Artisan migrate error: Illuminate\Database\QueryException - php

Question

I am trying to migrate and already installed Xampp and also already uncomment the ";extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll" and ";extension=pdo_mysql" in the php.ini file, and still getting that error:
Illuminate\Database\QueryException
could not find driver (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = rav2 and table_name = migrations and table_type = 'BASE TABLE')
PDOException::("could not find driver")
Any ideas?
Thank you!

Answer 1

Maybe, you don't set correct db states at .env.
Check your .env params that you want to connect your database.
for example, table_type = 'BASE TABLE' seems to be wrong?
first, check your php.ini is correct like
# Windows
extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll
# Linux
extension=php_pdo_mysql.so
Is that uncommented ?
if you have ;,remove that.
and you need to restart your xampp after fixing that php.ini.
do /etc/init.d/httpd restart
also your laravel env may be wrong ... so fix .env like:
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE= your database name
DB_USERNAME= your database user name
DB_PASSWORD= your database password
and you should check your database config like:
/config/database.php
'mysql' => [
'driver' => 'mysql',
'url' => env('DATABASE_URL'),
'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'your database name'),
'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'your database user name'),
'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', 'your database password'),
'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
'prefix_indexes' => true,
'strict' => true,
'engine' => null,
'options' => extension_loaded('pdo_mysql') ? array_filter([
PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA => env('MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA'),
]) : [],
],