Running Database Migrations - steve-mt/laravel-docker GitHub Wiki

Prerequisites

This expects you to know how to run artisan commands which documentation about can be found here


  1. First thing you need to fix id your enviorment varaibles for the database by default you have some like this in your .env file.
DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=homestead
DB_USERNAME=homestead
DB_PASSWORD=secret

You will have to change all of the values by default you have to change the values like this.

DB_HOST=db
DB_DATABASE=laravel
DB_USERNAME=laravel
DB_PASSWORD=laravel

Now all you need to do is run php artiasn migrate and it should migrate to the database.

To learn how to query the database check the documentation here