Error deploying to vercel from Git with Neon Prism Database

[muellerjono-gmailcom (Jono Mueller)]

I’ve been working on a project learning how to create in next.js and I’m at the point of trying to setup a database.

When trying to deploy from git with vercel --prod I receive the following error

Environment Variable “DATABASE_URL” references Secret “DATABASE_URL”, which does not exist.

In vercel - settings i have ensured the DATABASE_URL is set for all environments and that the URL matches what is in my code.

Any help to understand how to resolve this would be appreciated. Thank you!

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This is my project setup:

I created a database in neon and linked to my project.

I setup all the structures and code as follows:

.env (contains all the links from the neon dashboard)
/lib/pismaClient.js
/prisma/schema.prisma which references DATABASE_URL

package.json includes
“scripts”: {
“dev”: “next dev”,
“build”: “prisma generate && next build”,

Here is my app structure

Everything is working locally when testing.

The setup I have for my project is:

GIT - code and VSCODE
Vercel - Deployment
Neon - Database linked in Vercel

[muellerjono-gmailcom (Jono Mueller)]

Hi All,

I resolved this issue.

It was that I reference DATABASE_URL in my vercel.json file.

By removing it I was able to deploy correctly.

Thanks

[anshumanb (Anshuman Bhardwaj)]

Hi @muellerjono-gmailcom, thanks for sharing your solution in the community.