Laravel/Doctrine randomly tries to connect to production database - php

Question

I'm randomly getting server errors because Laravel is trying to connect to the production database, despite the fact that I have a .env file set up and a majority of the time it connects to the correct database.
Here is the error I am receiving:
[2018-02-17 08:05:54] production.ERROR: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'forge'#'localhost' (using password: NO) (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = forge and table_name = settings) {"exception":"[object]
(Illuminate\\Database\\QueryException(code: 1045): SQLSTATE[HY000]
[1045] Access denied for user 'forge'#'localhost' (using password: NO)
(SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = forge and table_name = settings) at C:\\wamp64\\www\\projects\\infusedx\\vendor\\laravel\\framework\\src\\Illuminate\\Database\\Connection.php:664,
Doctrine\\DBAL\\Driver\\PDOException(code: 1045): SQLSTATE[HY000]
[1045] Access denied for user 'forge'#'localhost' (using password: NO)
at
C:\\wamp64\\www\\projects\\infusedx\\vendor\\doctrine\\dbal\\lib\\Doctrine\\DBAL\\Driver\\PDOConnection.php:47,
PDOException(code: 1045): SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for
user 'forge'#'localhost' (using password: NO) at
C:\\wamp64\\www\\projects\\infusedx\\vendor\\doctrine\\dbal\\lib\\Doctrine\\DBAL\\Driver\\PDOConnection.php:43)
Why would doctrine be trying to connect to the wrong database? Is it being insantiated before dotenv sometimes?

Answer 1

First
You can try clear or re-cache your configurations
php artisan config:clear or php artisan config:cache
before running your migration commands
Secondly
I had this issue on heroku. When trying to run migration commands from heroku's ssh heroku ps:exec environment. i was doing:
heroku ps:exec
and
php artisan migrate
but the env variables set in the heroku app isn't available to laravel (env('DB_DATABASE'), etc).
To fix this, i had to run the migrations from the bash
heroku run bash
then
php artisan migrate