Target class [App\Console\CreateDatabaseCommand] does not exist.

Question

Presently, I am attempting to perform my first migration on a PHP Laravel website I am creating. I have created a user:

MariaDB [ (none) ]> CREATE USER 'homestead'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'secret';

Then I have added a CreateDatabaseCommand as explained here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36914573/how-to-create-new-empty-database-with-laravel-over-model

But when I try to execute the command it fails:

ubuntu@ip-123-342-112-224:/var/www/mywebsite$ ./artisan make:database ledca

   Illuminate\Contracts\Container\BindingResolutionException 

  Target class [App\Console\CreateDatabaseCommand] does not exist.

  at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:916
    912▕ 
    913▕         try {
    914▕             $reflector = new ReflectionClass($concrete);
    915▕         } catch (ReflectionException $e) {
  ➜ 916▕             throw new BindingResolutionException("Target class [$concrete] does not exist.", 0, $e);
    917▕         }
    918▕ 
    919▕         // If the type is not instantiable, the developer is attempting to resolve
    920▕         // an abstract type such as an Interface or Abstract Class and there is

      +10 vendor frames 

  11  artisan:37
      Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel::handle()

Answer 1

Removed the command from Kernel.php, then executed these commands:

php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:clear