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Laravel Connection refused with different host name

I am using a Laravel 9 installation that is running perfectly on localhost.

When I add 127.0.0.1 myapp.local to my /etc/hosts (MacOS), I get a

SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused

I am using MariaDB in a docker container together with nginx, where I added I vhost for myapp.local. When I don't use a mysql connection, Laravel is working.

My .env file has DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 and I tried localhost, 0.0.0.0, myapp.local as well with the same error message.

The DB_USERNAME has access to % host.

Solution

  • I needed to use the docker container name as host name.