I'm on a Mac OS Yosemite using Laravel 5.0.

While in my **local** environment, I run `php artisan migrate` I keep getting :

> 
> Access denied for user 'homestead'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
> 
> 
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**Configuration**

Here is my **.env**

```
APP_ENV=local
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_KEY=*****

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=homestead
DB_USERNAME=homestead
DB_PASSWORD=secret

```

**app\config\database.php**

```
   'mysql'       => [
    'driver'      => 'mysql',
    'host'        => env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
    'database'    => env('DB_DATABASE', 'homestead'),
    'username'    => env('DB_USERNAME', 'homestead'),
    'password'    => env('DB_PASSWORD', 'secret'),
    'unix_socket' => '/tmp/mysql.sock',
    'charset'     => 'utf8',
    'collation'   => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
    'prefix'      => '',
    'strict'      => false,
    ]

```

How do I avoid this kind of error ?

**I've tried :**

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in **app/database.php**

Replace `localhost` with `127.0.0.1`

`'host'=> env('DB_HOST', 'localhost')` -->`'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1')`

Also, in **.env**

`DB_HOST=localhost` --> `DB_HOST=127.0.0.1`

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Try specify environment

`php artisan migrate --env=local`

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Check to see if the MySQL is running by run

`mysqladmin -u homestead -p status Enter password: secret`

I got

`Uptime: 21281 Threads: 3 Questions: 274 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 327 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 80 Queries per second avg: 0.012`

Which mean it's running.

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Check MySQL UNIX Socket (*This step work for me*)