Laravel Sail rebuild default database

Question

According to docs:

Also, when the MySQL container is starting, it will ensure a database exists whose name matches the value of your DB_DATABASE environment variable.

My .env file looks like this.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=mysql
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=test
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

Yet when I try to run the migrations via sail artisan migrate, I get back this error: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database 'test' (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = test and table_name = migrations and table_type = 'BASE TABLE')

What I've tried:

• Removing the docker container and images all together.
• Running sail build --no-cache (to try and rebuild everything altogether)
• When running sail shell, I went into MySQL and showed all databases. I could see the default laravel database there.

How do you tell sail to create the correct DB_DATABASE?

My docker-compose.yml:

# For more information: https://laravel.com/docs/sail
version: '3'
services:
    laravel.test:
        build:
            context: ./vendor/laravel/sail/runtimes/8.0
            dockerfile: Dockerfile
            args:
                WWWGROUP: '${WWWGROUP}'
        image: sail-8.0/app
        ports:
            - '${APP_PORT:-80}:80'
        environment:
            WWWUSER: '${WWWUSER}'
            LARAVEL_SAIL: 1
        volumes:
            - '.:/var/www/html'
        networks:
            - sail
        depends_on:
            - mysql
            - redis
    mysql:
        image: 'mysql:8.0'
        ports:
            - '${FORWARD_DB_PORT:-3306}:3306'
        environment:
            MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: '${DB_PASSWORD}'
            MYSQL_DATABASE: '${DB_DATABASE}'
            MYSQL_USER: '${DB_USERNAME}'
            MYSQL_PASSWORD: '${DB_PASSWORD}'
            MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD: 'yes'
        volumes:
            - 'sailmysql:/var/lib/mysql'
        networks:
            - sail
    redis:
        image: 'redis:alpine'
        ports:
            - '${FORWARD_REDIS_PORT:-6379}:6379'
        volumes:
            - 'sailredis:/data'
        networks:
            - sail
    mailhog:
        image: 'mailhog/mailhog:latest'
        ports:
            - 1025:1025
            - 8025:8025
        networks:
            - sail
networks:
    sail:
        driver: bridge
volumes:
    sailmysql:
        driver: local
    sailredis:
        driver: local

Answer 1

If you have added the sail command to the PATH environment variable...

If you execute the sail command in the project directory where the .env file exists, the database named DB_DATABASE is created when the MySQL container is executed.

https://github.com/laravel/sail/blob/1.x/bin/sail#L66

    # Source the ".env" file so Laravel's environment variables are available...
    if [ -f ./.env ]; then
        source ./.env
    fi

---

Test - https://laravel.build/example-app

I tried with the following example project.

Your First Laravel Project - https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/installation#getting-started-on-windows

curl -s https://laravel.build/example-app | bash

cd example-app

./vendor/bin/sail up

Configuring A Bash Alias - https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/sail#configuring-a-bash-alias

vi ~/.bashrc

alias sail='bash vendor/bin/sail'

I ran it in daemon mode and checked the docker process.

sail up -d
sail ps
           Name                         Command               State                       Ports
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
example-app_laravel.test_1   start-container                  Up      0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 8000/tcp
example-app_mailhog_1        MailHog                          Up      0.0.0.0:1025->1025/tcp, 0.0.0.0:8025->8025/tcp
example-app_mysql_1          docker-entrypoint.sh mysqld      Up      0.0.0.0:3306->3306/tcp, 33060/tcp
example-app_redis_1          docker-entrypoint.sh redis ...   Up      0.0.0.0:6379->6379/tcp

My .env

DB_DATABASE=example_app

List of MySQL databases.

sail mysql

mysql> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| example_app        |
| information_schema |
| mysql              |
| performance_schema |
| sys                |
+--------------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

DB migration was also successful.

sail artisan migrate

Migration table created successfully.
Migrating: 2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table
Migrated:  2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table (166.17ms)
Migrating: 2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table
Migrated:  2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table (99.25ms)
Migrating: 2019_08_19_000000_create_failed_jobs_table
Migrated:  2019_08_19_000000_create_failed_jobs_table (128.87ms)

Test - laravel new project

Laravel Sail - https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/sail

laravel new test

cd test

composer require laravel/sail --dev

php artisan sail:install

sail up -d

The database name follows the project name.

grep DB_DATABASE .env
DB_DATABASE=test

DB migration was also successful.

sail artisan migrate

Migration table created successfully.
Migrating: 2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table
Migrated:  2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table (162.35ms)
Migrating: 2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table
Migrated:  2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table (96.68ms)
Migrating: 2019_08_19_000000_create_failed_jobs_table
Migrated:  2019_08_19_000000_create_failed_jobs_table (89.60ms)