Setting up Laravel on a Mac php artisan migrate error: No such file or directory [duplicate]

If you are using MAMP be sure to add the unix_socket key with a value of the path that the mysql.sock resides in MAMP.

'mysql' => array(
        'driver'    => 'mysql',
        'host'      => 'localhost',
        'unix_socket'   => '/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock',
        'database'  => 'database',
        'username'  => 'root',
        'password'  => 'root',
        'charset'   => 'utf8',
        'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
        'prefix'    => '',
    ),

Do not assume your unix_socket which would be different from one to another, try to find it.

First of all, get your unix_socket location.

$ mysql -uroot -p

Enter your mysql password and login your mysql server from command line.

mysql> show variables like '%sock%';
+---------------+---------------------------------------+
| Variable_name | Value                                 |
+---------------+---------------------------------------+
| socket        | /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock |
+---------------+---------------------------------------+

Your unix_soket could be diffrent.

Then you got 2 solution to solve your issue:

(1) Change your config/database.php

    'mysql' => array(
    'driver'    => 'mysql',
    'host'      => 'localhost',
    'database'  => 'essays',
    'username'  => 'root',
    'password'  => 'root',
    'unix_socket'   => '/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock', //Your sock got from above
    'charset'   => 'utf8',
    'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
    'prefix'    => '',
),

(2) Change your php.ini, find your php.ini file from

<? phpinfo();

You maybe install many php with different version, so please don't assume your php.ini file location, get it from your 'phpinfo';

Change your php.ini:

mysql.default_socket = /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock

mysqli.default_socket = /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock

pdo_mysql.default_socket = /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock

Then restart your apache or php-fpm.

Had the same problem, but it's working for me now.

If anybody is still having problems, try this:

• Make sure your bootstrap/start.php contains your actual hostname, not the name of your virtual host. Enter hostname in the terminal to get your hostname. As it's an array I believe you can enter both your hostname and the name(s) of your virtual host(s).
• Replace "localhost" with "127.0.0.1".

If you are using XAMPP, the solution is:

'mysql' => array(
        'driver'      => 'mysql',
        'unix_socket' => '/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/var/mysql/mysql.sock',
        'host'        => 'localhost'
)

This works for me in Laravel 5.0, change the DB_HOST=127.0.0.1:33060 in .env file.

Others answers don't work...