title: Laravel Connection Refused Error
body: <p>I'm aware this is a repeat question, but none of the solutions online seem to be working for me.</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to add authentication to a laravel 5 project (using <code>make:auth</code>)
  Whenever I try to 'register', I get a <code>SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused</code> error.</p>
  
  <p>The responses online have been to change localhost to 127.0.0.1 and vise-vera, but that isn't working for me.</p>
  
  <p>Any idea anyone?
  Thanks (I'm on OSX, if that makes a difference at all)</p>
  
  <pre><code>.env
  DB_HOST=localhost
  DB_DATABASE=test
  DB_USERNAME=test
  DB_PASSWORD=
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <pre><code>database.php
  'mysql' =&gt; [
              'driver'    =&gt; 'mysql',
              'host'      =&gt; env('DB_HOST', 'localhost'),
              'database'  =&gt; env('DB_DATABASE', 'test'),
              'username'  =&gt; env('DB_USERNAME', 'test'),
              'password'  =&gt; env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
              'charset'   =&gt; 'utf8',
              'collation' =&gt; 'utf8_unicode_ci',
              'prefix'    =&gt; '',
              'strict'    =&gt; false,
          ],
  </code></pre>