Laravel Sail How to solve SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user.

It seems like you accidentally created a mysql volume by running sail without an .env file, which was persistent the whole time thus of course having no user and database configured.

Execute ./vendor/bin/sail down --rmi all -v to remove all images and volumes and then just ran ./vendor/bin/sail up to recreate the images and volumes.

Laravel Sail is a light-weight command-line interface for interacting with Laravel's default Docker development environment. Sail provides a great starting point for building a Laravel application using PHP, MySQL, and Redis without requiring prior Docker experience.

At its heart, Sail is the docker-compose.yml file and the sail script that is stored at the root of your project. The sail script provides a CLI with convenient methods for interacting with the Docker containers defined by the docker-compose.yml file.

Laravel Sail is supported on macOS, Linux, and Windows (via WSL2).

To know more about sail you can find the official documentation here.

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