SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused within Laravel homestead

Question

Using Mac OS X and Homestead 2.2.1 with Laravel 5.2.

In terminal (within homestead in my project folder) I can do php artisan to see all the available commands. When I try to run php artisan migrate I get a connection error:
SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused

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I have setup a Laravel project with these .env settings

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 DB_DATABASE=tcv DB_USERNAME=homestead DB_PASSWORD=secret 

I have also tried localhost for DB_HOST and root for DB_USERNAME and DB_PASSWORD. And all possible variations of these put together!

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In Sequel Pro (db management application) I CAN connect with these settings

Host       127.0.0.1 Username   homestead Password   secret Database   tcv Port       33060 

But this database is obviously empty, because I cant migrate to it from terminal ...

As far as I can make out it is a configuration issue, since I can connect to it with Sequel Pro. But I have honestly no freaking idea what is setup wrong.

Thanks for the help !!

EDIT
For some reason I get the same SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused error when moving my project to MAMP and running php artisan migrate.
Now I am completely lost ...

Answer 1

I just ran into this and found that changing this in the .env file from 127.0.0.1 to localhost fixed it.

DB_HOST=localhost