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I am using laravel 5.8 and having MAMP server got this error resolved by adding DB_SOCKET=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock in .env file like below
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=8889
DB_DATABASE=dbname
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=root
DB_SOCKET=/Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock
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