Laravel can't connect to DB

laravel, laravel-4, mysql, php

Solution

I think this is the solution :)

'mysql' => array(
    'driver'    => 'mysql',
    'host'      => '127.0.0.1',
    'database'  => 'bt',
    'username'  => 'root',
    'password'  => '',
    'charset'   => 'utf8',
    'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
    'prefi

Problem

I'm following through the Quick Start Guide, and got to the section actually connecting to the DB to fetch the users table, and am getting the following error: SQLSTATE[28000] [1045] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) My `database.php` includes the following setup (default set to mysql): ``` 'mysql' => array( 'driver' => 'mysql', 'host' => 'localhost', 'database' => 'bt', 'username' => 'root', 'password' => '', 'charset' => 'utf8', 'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci', 'prefix' => '', ), ``` When I go to the terminal window, however, I'm able to log in using `mysql -h localhost -u root -p` then just hit enter to go in without a password, which I thought would be equivalent (the 'bt' table shows up when I run `show databases();`). What am I missing here?

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