Laravel 5.1: migrate command doesn't work 'unknown database'

Good day!

I am facing problems with my laravel project built with laravel 5.1.

So I developed a reservation system with laravel, it works on my local server.

Then I uploaded it to my live server and started an SSH session.

But when I ran php artisan migrate command, this error showed up

[PDOException] SQLSTATE[HY000] [2005] Unknown MySQL server host 'sddb0040291787.cgidb' (0)

So, what I did so far is I wrote a php script to create the tables and other database related stuff and then run the php script on my server.

This works actually, my CRUD functions are working but I know this is just a temporary solution.

What I am looking for is a permanent solution. Plain PHP scripts seem to be able to connect to the database host. but when I migrate using laravel, the error always shows up. Any ideas?

via Chebli Mohamed