Answers for "how fix sqlstate[42000]: syntax error or access violation: 1071 specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes"

ERROR 1071 (42000) at line 76: Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes laravel

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

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

Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes (SQL: alter table

Path : App/Providers/AppServiceProvider

Schema::defaultStringLength(191);
in AppServiceProvider didn't work for me. What worked for was editing the database.php file in config folder. Just edit

'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
to

'charset' => 'utf8',
'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
and it should work, although you will be unable to store extended multibyte characters like emoji.