On your local OSX environment using Terminal or iTerm you can create a MySQL database, database user, and password, as well as, assign all privileges to the user for the database. Knowing your credentials, before beginning you will need to know the following: user: {user} password: {password} database: {database} For my local environment, I'll be using these credentials user root password root database safs   Walkthrough the steps to build your database: The initial step is to...

If like me you tried the command php artisanHowever, you had the following “Could not open input file: artisan” error when starting the Laravel service using the above command.   How come “Could not open input file: artisan” error is showing up in Laravel There are a few causes behind this error. File doesn't exist Incorrect console location Missing correct permission for artisan Composer install   File doesn't exist Yep - I know, I shouldn't have to reference this one, but it's...