Laravel was displaying to me "Access denied for user 'homestead'@'localhost' (using password: YES)". One solution for this was clearing the cache and the config cache stored, all this with these three commands:
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:clear
php artisan config:cache
After php artisan cache:clear, terminal says:
Failed to clear cache. Make sure you have the appropriate permissions. (with red background)
Doing the second and third code (php artisan config:clear and php artisan config:cache) works fine! But it still gives me the error when typing the first line. Can anyone explain why?
If the data directory doesn't exist under (storage/framework/cache/data), then you will have this error.
This data directory doesn't exist by default on a fresh/new installation.
Creating the data directory manually at (storage/framework/cache) should fix this issue.