# Starters not working **URL:** https://community.prismic.io/t/starters-not-working/10104 **Category:** Developing with Prismic **Tags:** nextjs **Created:** [May 20, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/starters-not-working/10104 "2022-05-20T13:03:19Z") **Posts on this page:** 6 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![mika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@mika](https://community.prismic.io/u/mika) #### Post date: [May 20, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/starters-not-working/10104/1 "2022-05-20T13:03:19Z")
Tried to setup starter projects but all three fail with 500 internal server error. I followed all the steps (except for the blog which seems to generate and publish sample content as soon as the slice machine pushes custom types to prismic). I am sure I am missing a crucial step somewhere, just not sure where. Thanks in advance for your help! ![Screenshot 2022-05-20 at 13.57.21](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/prismic/original/2X/7/7490ce07f32858bf84ee5ea827965db42aaa5f35.jpeg) ![Screenshot 2022-05-20 at 14.01.05](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/prismic/original/2X/a/a1eabc79e89a6f4e587311ac6858c9f62aa326d7.jpeg) ---
### Author: ![Fares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71e660/32.png) [@Fares](https://community.prismic.io/u/Fares) #### Post date: [May 20, 2022, 1:25pm UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/starters-not-working/10104/3 "2022-05-20T13:25:59Z")
Hi @mika, Can you please send me a zip file of your repository and your repository name (in a private message if necessary), and I will try to run the project on my machine. ---
### Author: ![mika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@mika](https://community.prismic.io/u/mika) #### Post date: [May 20, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/starters-not-working/10104/4 "2022-05-20T13:55:22Z")
Hi @Fares , Thank you so much for offering to help with this. My prismic repo name is `mikas-blog-example` ([mikas-blog-example.prismic.io](http://mikas-blog-example.prismic.io)). The code i am running is as generated by the script from the starter page (`npx prismic-cli@latest theme --theme-url https://github.com/prismicio-community/nextjs-starter-prismic-blog --conf sm.json`) I have not changed a single character in that code. The content is also as generated by the "push to prismic" action in the slice machine. I cannot attach the code as even without node\_modules the zip is 12MB. ---
### Author: ![mika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@mika](https://community.prismic.io/u/mika) #### Post date: [May 20, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/starters-not-working/10104/5 "2022-05-20T14:07:45Z")
Hi @Fares , here is the code without `.net/cache/webpack` ... Hope that is OK for you. [mikas-blog-example.zip](https://community.prismic.io/uploads/short-url/h2Gc7NNKsyN4n1WfIqn8jWTkhb4.zip) (2.2 MB) ---
### Author: ![adri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@adri](https://community.prismic.io/u/adri) #### Post date: [May 22, 2022, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/starters-not-working/10104/6 "2022-05-22T18:19:54Z")
Hi! I have exactly the same issue ---
### Author: ![mika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea5d25/32.png) [@mika](https://community.prismic.io/u/mika) #### Post date: [May 24, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://community.prismic.io/t/starters-not-working/10104/8 "2022-05-24T13:53:10Z")
Right... I think I will get a red herring poisoning, but it is all solved now. For the blogs example, open `Settings` type page and add some content to the `Newsletter Description` and `Newsletter Disclaimer` fields. Publish and run. It should all work just fine. Please note that you can then delete the same content, republish and it will all work fine, so I do not think it is the lack of content which is the problem. If I was to guess, I think that the content build scripts do not populate all the fields properly with default values.