artisan:migrate is not skipped when it doesn't exist

[Akhmami]

if i look at the laravel.php recipe the task artisan:migrate will be skipped if .env doesn't exist, why does it keep running on me?

task artisan:migrate
[safaraz]  error  in laravel.php on line 73:
[safaraz] run /usr/bin/php /var/www/safaraz/releases/4/artisan migrate --force
[safaraz] In Connection.php line 829:
[safaraz] SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused (Connection: mysql, SQL: select t
[safaraz] able_name as `name`, (data_length + index_length) as `size`, table_comment
[safaraz] as `comment`, engine as `engine`, table_collation as `collation` from infor
[safaraz] mation_schema.tables where table_schema = 'school_project' and table_type i
[safaraz] n ('BASE TABLE', 'SYSTEM VERSIONED') order by table_name)
[safaraz] In Connector.php line 65:
[safaraz] SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Connection refused
[safaraz] exit code 1 (General error)
ERROR: Task artisan:migrate failed!

what is the best practice to do this?

[Akhmami]

so by default .env will be added if not exists, and now i have a new problem. #3946