Laravel Artisan access denied for root#localhost on console only - php

Question

I have a problem with Laravel. My website has no problem accessing and performing operations on the database but when I try to run
php artisan migrate
On a terminal I get the error:
[Illuminate\Database\QueryException]
SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'root'#'localhost'
(using pas sword: NO) (SQL: select * from
information_schema.tables where table_schema = test and
table_name = migrations)
[PDOException]
SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'root'#'localhost'
(using pas sword: NO)
I have read every thread on the Internet about this error that I could find and none of them answered my question. It was always because people did not enter their database information correctly... However that is not my case since everything works fine in browser, I just cannot perform database related operations via the console like migrating or creating new database entries via artisan tinker.
Here is what my config/database.php file:
'connections' => [
'mysql' => [
'driver' => 'mysql',
'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'test'),
'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'root'),
'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
'prefix' => '',
'strict' => true,
'engine' => null,
],
]
And my .env config:
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=test
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=
I am stuck on figuring this problem out, so I appreciate your help a lot. I'm running XAMPP on my local machine and its on macOS 10.1.

Answer 1

Root is username for system administrator for linux and Mac base Os. "php artisan" command is not set to run under 'root' user. Try to run under non administrator(non root) user

Answer 2

In my case, I've just set the DB_PASSWORD and it worked!
Like this:
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=bacon
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=secret

Answer 3

The problem for me was that the password contained special characters, and so had to be quoted in the .env file:
DB_USERNAME={user}
DB_PASSWORD="{password}"

Answer 4

For those who are still having this problem.
Laravel command lines depend on the command mysql being accessible globally. Mine was not, I was using the absolute path to link to it because I am using XAMPP.
I corrected this issue by making the mysql command available globally. With a XAMPP installation in Mac just run this command in your terminal:
export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/bin:$PATH
This should make mysql globally available and fix your migration problems.

Answer 5

I followed the following steps and I was able to overcome this issue-
Created another user in mysql other than root.
Grant all on . to 'newuser'#'localhost'
Changed the user in .env file
Made the mysql exe file location as a value in the PATH system variable in windows
Restarted the system
Restarted the wamp development server
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:cache
Now the next thing to check was the mysql port
Enter via terminal to mysql:
mysql -u root -p
and then type the following in the mysql prompt:
mysql> SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'PORT';
This showed that the port was 3308 and not 3306 in my windows 10 machine
Changed the port in .env file
Again php artisan clear:cache
php artisan config:cache
Now gave the command- php artisan migrate:fresh --seed
Finally it was successful.

Answer 6

None of the other answers worked for me. I solved the issue by simply adding a password to DB_PASSWORD= in .env, which was empty initially.