Laravel won't let me migrate a table because it already exists

In laravel 5.5 and > you can use:

  $ php artisan migrate:fresh 
  // ( not migrate:refresh wich is a different command)

This command first drops all tables and then reruns all migrations

I had neither removed the migration entry nor dropped the table manually from the database In my case, the solution is open up the tinker from the composer

$ php artisan tinker
>>> Schema::drop('users')
>>> Schema::drop('password_resets')
>>> Schema::drop('orders')
>>> exit
php artisan migrate

Here is the result of the above commands executed

nishanth@localhost:~/Desktop/html/hutch$ php artisan migrate

In Connection.php line 647: SQLSTATE[42S01]: Base table or view already exists: 1050 Table 'users' alre ady exists (SQL: create table users (id int unsigned not null auto_incr ement primary key, name varchar(255) not null, email varchar(255) not n ull, password varchar(255) not null, remember_token varchar(100) null, created_at timestamp null, updated_at timestamp null) default character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_unicode_ci)

In Connection.php line 449: SQLSTATE[42S01]: Base table or view already exists: 1050 Table 'users' already exists

nishanth@localhost:~/Desktop/html/hutch$ php artisan migrate:rollback
Nothing to rollback.
nishanth@localhost:~/Desktop/html/hutch$ php artisan tinker
Psy Shell v0.8.17 (PHP 7.1.20-1+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 — cli) by Justin Hileman
>>> Schema::drop('users')
=> null
>>> Schema::drop('password_resets')
=> null
>>> Schema::drop('orders')
=> null
>>> exit
Exit:  Goodbye.
nishanth@localhost:~/Desktop/html/hutch$ php artisan migrate
Migrating: 2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table
Migrated:  2014_10_12_000000_create_users_table
Migrating: 2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table
Migrated:  2014_10_12_100000_create_password_resets_table
Migrating: 2018_08_18_071213_create_orders_table
Migrated:  2018_08_18_071213_create_orders_table
nishanth@localhost:~/Desktop/html/hutch$ 

Also define the method down(), if it doesn't exist.
Otherwise, it'll show

SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1051 Unknown table 'XYZ.ABC' (SQL: drop table ABC)

/**
  * Reverse the migrations.
  *
  * @return void
  */
public function down()
{
    Schema::dropIfExists('ABC');
}

Try this,

Add following line :
Schema::dropIfExists('mytable'); inside the Up() function at the very beggining exactly before creating schema for the mytable.
i.e. before following code.
Schema::create('mytable', function (Blueprint $table)