Codeigniter not connecting to database

Hello, Codeigniter not connecting to database. After setting the information in the .env it doesn't throw an error, even if I put in the wrong database details it won't throw an error too. that's making it hard for me to know if the database has connected.

what I did

database.default.hostname = localhost
database.default.database = ci4
database.default.username = root
database.default.password =
database.default.DBDriver = MySQLi
database.default.DBPrefix =

see this tread :
https://forum.codeigniter.com/thread-77479.html

 [b][b]John_Beton

[/b][/b]i solved similar problem on server