diff --git a/app/api/nextcloud/status/route.ts b/app/api/nextcloud/status/route.ts
index 60189318..4f3ceda8 100644
--- a/app/api/nextcloud/status/route.ts
+++ b/app/api/nextcloud/status/route.ts
@@ -5,16 +5,13 @@ import { DOMParser } from '@xmldom/xmldom';
 import { Buffer } from 'buffer';
 import { PrismaClient } from '@prisma/client';
 
-interface WebDAVCredentials {
-  id: string;
-  userId: string;
-  username: string;
-  password: string;
-  createdAt: Date;
-  updatedAt: Date;
+// Use a single PrismaClient instance
+declare global {
+  var prisma: PrismaClient | undefined;
 }
 
-const prisma = new PrismaClient();
+const prisma = global.prisma || new PrismaClient();
+if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') global.prisma = prisma;
 
 async function sleep(ms: number) {
   return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
@@ -69,9 +66,9 @@ async function createFolder(nextcloudUrl: string, username: string, password: st
 async function getWebDAVCredentials(nextcloudUrl: string, username: string, adminUsername: string, adminPassword: string, userId: string) {
   try {
     // Check if credentials exist in database
-    let credentials = await (prisma as any).webDAVCredentials.findUnique({
+    let credentials = await prisma.webDAVCredentials.findUnique({
       where: { userId },
-    }) as WebDAVCredentials | null;
+    });
 
     if (credentials) {
       // Verify existing credentials still work
@@ -90,7 +87,7 @@ async function getWebDAVCredentials(nextcloudUrl: string, username: string, admi
       }
 
       // If verification failed, delete the old credentials
-      await (prisma as any).webDAVCredentials.delete({
+      await prisma.webDAVCredentials.delete({
         where: { userId },
       });
     }
@@ -130,13 +127,13 @@ async function getWebDAVCredentials(nextcloudUrl: string, username: string, admi
     }
 
     // Store the new credentials
-    credentials = await (prisma as any).webDAVCredentials.create({
+    credentials = await prisma.webDAVCredentials.create({
       data: {
         userId,
         username,
         password: newPassword,
       },
-    }) as WebDAVCredentials;
+    });
 
     // Create required folder structure
     await createFolder(nextcloudUrl, username, newPassword, 'Private');
diff --git a/prisma/schema.prisma b/prisma/schema.prisma
index aa344c5f..c4d4393a 100644
--- a/prisma/schema.prisma
+++ b/prisma/schema.prisma
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ generator client {
 
 datasource db {
   provider = "postgresql"
-  url      = env("NEWSDB_URL")
+  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
 }
 
 model User {