Ramesh Thapa

$ php artisan migrate
Migration table created successfully.


Problem

Illuminate\Database\QueryException : SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access
violation: 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes (SQL: a
lter table `users` add unique `users_email_unique`(`email`))

at D:\Webapps\htdocs\rameshlaraone\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Dat
abase\Connection.php:664
660| // If an exception occurs when attempting to run a query, we’ll
format the error
661| // message to include the bindings with SQL, which will make th
is exception a
662| // lot more helpful to the developer instead of just the databa
se’s errors.
663| catch (Exception $e) {
> 664| throw new QueryException(
665| $query, $this->prepareBindings($bindings), $e
666| );
667| }
668|

Exception trace:

1 PDOException::(“SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Sp
ecified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes”)
D:\Webapps\htdocs\rameshlaraone\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Da
tabase\Connection.php:458

2 PDOStatement::execute()
D:\Webapps\htdocs\rameshlaraone\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Da
tabase\Connection.php:458

how to solve?

Go to AppServiceProvider.php and  inside the boot method set a default string length:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

public function boot() { Schema::defaultStringLength(191); }

In look at figure

Default AppServiceProvider is look this

Then you must change this like.