title: Laravel 5.6 | PHP artisan migrate not working
body: <p>I've tried quite a few things that I've seen when googling this issue, but nothing has worked for me yet.</p>
  
  <p>I'm running Mac OS 10.13.4 w/ MAMP. This command works on my Windows Machine with XAMPP.</p>
  
  <p>Things I've tried:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Changing: `127.0.0.1` to `localhost` in `.env`</li>
  <li>Changing: `DB_PORT` from `3306` to `8889` in `.env`</li>
  <li>Adding: `'unix_socket' => '/tmp/mysql.sock'`, to `config\database.php`
  </ul>
  
  <p><p>Here's what's returned when entering <code>php artisan migrate -v</code> into terminal.<p></p>
  
  <pre><code>SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = b_rowland and table_name = migrations)
  
    at /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php: 664
    660:         // If an exception occurs when attempting to run a query, we'll format the error
    661:         // message to include the bindings with SQL, which will make this exception a
    662:         // lot more helpful to the developer instead of just the database's errors.
    663:         catch (Exception $e) {
    664:             throw new QueryException(
    665:                 $query, $this-&gt;prepareBindings($bindings), $e
    666:             );
    667:         }
    668: 
    669:         return $result;
  
    Exception trace:
  
    1   PDOException::("SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory")
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connectors/Connector.php : 68
  
    2   PDO::__construct("mysql:unix_socket=/tmp/mysql.sock;dbname=b_rowland", "root", "", [])
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connectors/Connector.php : 68
  
    3   Illuminate\Database\Connectors\Connector::createPdoConnection("mysql:unix_socket=/tmp/mysql.sock;dbname=b_rowland", "root", "", [])
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connectors/Connector.php : 44
  
    4   Illuminate\Database\Connectors\Connector::createConnection("mysql:unix_socket=/tmp/mysql.sock;dbname=b_rowland", [])
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connectors/MySqlConnector.php : 24
  
    5   Illuminate\Database\Connectors\MySqlConnector::connect()
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connectors/ConnectionFactory.php : 183
  
    6   Illuminate\Database\Connectors\ConnectionFactory::Illuminate\Database\Connectors\{closure}()
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php : 915
  
    7   call_user_func(Object(Closure))
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php : 915
  
    8   Illuminate\Database\Connection::getPdo()
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php : 940
  
    9   Illuminate\Database\Connection::getReadPdo()
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php : 399
  
    10  Illuminate\Database\Connection::getPdoForSelect()
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php : 325
  
    11  Illuminate\Database\Connection::Illuminate\Database\{closure}("select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = ? and table_name = ?")
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php : 657
  
    12  Illuminate\Database\Connection::runQueryCallback("select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = ? and table_name = ?", Object(Closure))
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php : 624
  
    13  Illuminate\Database\Connection::run("select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = ? and table_name = ?", Object(Closure))
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Connection.php : 333
  
    14  Illuminate\Database\Connection::select("select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = ? and table_name = ?")
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Schema/MySqlBuilder.php : 18
  
    15  Illuminate\Database\Schema\MySqlBuilder::hasTable("migrations")
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Migrations/DatabaseMigrationRepository.php : 169
  
    16  Illuminate\Database\Migrations\DatabaseMigrationRepository::repositoryExists()
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Migrations/Migrator.php : 545
  
    17  Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migrator::repositoryExists()
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Console/Migrations/MigrateCommand.php : 97
  
    18  Illuminate\Database\Console\Migrations\MigrateCommand::prepareDatabase()
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Console/Migrations/MigrateCommand.php : 63
  
    19  Illuminate\Database\Console\Migrations\MigrateCommand::handle()
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/BoundMethod.php : 29
  
    20  call_user_func_array([])
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/BoundMethod.php : 29
  
    21  Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::Illuminate\Container\{closure}()
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/BoundMethod.php : 87
  
    22  Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::callBoundMethod(Object(Illuminate\Foundation\Application), Object(Closure))
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/BoundMethod.php : 31
  
    23  Illuminate\Container\BoundMethod::call(Object(Illuminate\Foundation\Application), [])
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php : 564
  
    24  Illuminate\Container\Container::call()
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Command.php : 183
  
    25  Illuminate\Console\Command::execute(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Illuminate\Console\OutputStyle))
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/symfony/console/Command/Command.php : 252
  
    26  Symfony\Component\Console\Command\Command::run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Illuminate\Console\OutputStyle))
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Command.php : 170
  
    27  Illuminate\Console\Command::run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php : 865
  
    28  Symfony\Component\Console\Application::doRunCommand(Object(Illuminate\Database\Console\Migrations\MigrateCommand), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php : 241
  
    29  Symfony\Component\Console\Application::doRun(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/symfony/console/Application.php : 143
  
    30  Symfony\Component\Console\Application::run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Console/Application.php : 88
  
    31  Illuminate\Console\Application::run(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/Kernel.php : 122
  
    32  Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel::handle(Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Input\ArgvInput), Object(Symfony\Component\Console\Output\ConsoleOutput))
        /Users/blazerowland/Documents/Sites/Personal/Portfolio/artisan : 37
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