Connection url is empty

Author: mmikhanCreated Mar 22, 2026Updated May 11, 2026

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Describe the bug Running bun run migrate command in a fresh project shows the following error even though DATABASE_URL is set to packages/database/.env as expected as mentioned in the docs.

bash

❯ bun run migrate
$ cd packages/database && bunx prisma format && bunx prisma generate && bunx prisma migrate dev
Loaded Prisma config from prisma.config.ts.

Prisma schema loaded from prisma/schema.prisma.
Formatted prisma/schema.prisma in 9ms 
Loaded Prisma config from prisma.config.ts.

Prisma schema loaded from prisma/schema.prisma.

✔ Generated Prisma Client (7.4.2) to ./generated in 24ms

Loaded Prisma config from prisma.config.ts.

Prisma schema loaded from prisma/schema.prisma.
Datasource "db": PostgreSQL database

Error: Connection url is empty. See https://pris.ly/d/config-url
error: script "migrate" exited with code 1

next-forge version I am using version 6.0.2

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Init a fresh project bun x next-forge@latest init
Setup the DATABASE_URL in packages/database/.env
Run bun run migrate command

Expected behavior Migration runs successfully

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OS: MacOS

Source: vercel/next-forge

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