create a new db and run artisan migrate on that and check if the tables are created .. just for debugging this issue/

Tried that, it once again created just the default tables. Looking at mysql logs i realized that it is trying to set 'auto_increment primary key' on every integer column.

Here's how the query ends:

68 Prepare create table projects (id int unsigned not null auto_increment primary key, name varchar(256) not null, col1 int not null auto_increment primary key, col2 int not null auto_increment primary key, col3 int not null auto_increment primary key, col4 int not null auto_increment primary key, col5 int not null auto_increment primary key, col6 int not null auto_increment primary key, created_at timestamp default 0 not null, updated_at timestamp default 0 not null) default character set utf8 collate utf8_unicode_ci

68 Close stmt

68 Quit

The stmt is never executed, probably because of the primary key thing. Am I missing something obvious here?