God fucking damn this stupid MariaDB is full of bugs... First access denied because I tried to login as root as non root and now that... Damn...

@Artemix I never used PSQL so I would need to learn how to configure it. But the main reason not to use it: the sever it will be deployed on only has a MySQL database.

@iatanasov actually no. It didn't happen with MySQL, because it was fixed in the version I used last. For some reason XAMPP as well as Raspbian use old versions of MariaDB in which it wasn't fixed yet.

So far MaruaDB caused me more issues than MySQL.

It is a known issue.
This is the solution:

https://laravel-news.com/laravel-5-...

Yep. It still sucks. 😕

@Triskelion so a laravel bug, not mariadb?

@nicholai
Is you use utf8mb4 you'll have this issue.

Laravel 5.4 made a change to the default database character set, and it’s now utf8mb4 which includes support for storing emojis. This only affects new applications and as long as you are running MySQL v5.7.7 and higher you do not need to do anything.