title: Adding and using additional databases on Homestead VM
body: <p>I have configured homestead and have my laravel site running on it. I have ssh'd into the box to run my migrations. When I did that, I realized, I will want to run more than one site on this VM as I'm learning laravel and homestead. So I wanted separate databases so I don't pile everything onto 'homestead'</p>
  
  <p>I connected to the mysql database in the homestead vm with Sequel Pro and created a new database. I rolled back my migration to drop all tables on the homstead db, confirmed they were dropped in Sequel Pro. Then I updated my app/config/database.php file with the new database name:</p>
  
  <pre><code>'mysql' =&gt; array(
          'driver'    =&gt; 'mysql',
          'host'      =&gt; '127.0.0.1',
          'database'  =&gt; 'newDBName',
          ....
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Then I ran my migrations on Homestead again, however it continues to put the tables in the 'homestead' database. I've done this a number of times, confirmed it was saving, updated other files and checked that files are syncing with the VM when they are edited locally (which they are). I have vagrant reload (ed) to see if that could cause it. No luck.</p>
  
  <p>I'm at a loss. How can I force my laravel app to migrate and reference the new database I have created on Homestead?</p>