Laradock: Cannot execute php artisan migrate

[dioseltorre]

When I execute: _php artisan migrate_
it always gives me this Exception:

[Illuminate\Database\QueryException]
could not find driver (SQL: select * from information_schema.tables where table_schema = mydb and table_name = migrations)

[PDOException]
could not find driver

Could anyone tell me how to fix this?

[Maras0830]

see https://github.com/laradock/laradock/issues/610

[yahsharahla]

It's like no one as the answer for this question, they keep saying to install php5-mysql which comes with the PDO extension.. but nothing happens after installing it. There are so many different ways i have tried to action this problem, but nothing works.

[kelvinogwa]

(Windows) Check the database.php file ensure 'default' => env('DB_CONNECTION', 'mysql'), is properly done for me the problem was I was using 'default' => env('DB_CONNECTION', 'pgsql'), when using a MySQL database. Changed pgsql to sql and I was able to proceed.