PDOException could not find driver - Homestead Laravel

Question

Upon running: php artisan migrate I recieve:

[PDOException]         
could not find driver

With me being unable to run database migrations through artisan.

As far as I can see my Nginx instance has PDO enabled and supporting mysql which is what I'm using on my local machine. What's the problem?

Answer 1

It turns out I needed the PDO extension on my local machine, not the vagrant box

sudo apt-get install php5-mysql

Following that we need to adjust our .env file for Laravel, see:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29756194/access-denied-for-user-homesteadlocalhost-using-password-yes wdog

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