# Cannnot access /var/lib/awx/projects

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/cannnot-access-var-lib-awx-projects/33615>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [August 14, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cannnot-access-var-lib-awx-projects/33615 "2020-08-14T13:57:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sherman\_Lilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Sherman\_Lilly](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sherman_Lilly)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/cannnot-access-var-lib-awx-projects/33615/1 "2020-08-14T13:57:33Z")

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I have been fighting with this for days. I have gotten AWX 14 running good. I go to create a Project manually and it doesn’t see my project directory. I did a test with a github project and it worked and it shows up in the project directory. I manually put a directory in the projects directory and put an example.yml file in the directory. When I go to setup the project in the GUI the directory doesn’t show up in the drop down list. The permissions are the same. The Github directory has a corresponding lock file.

drwxrwxrwx 5 awx awx 4096 Aug 13 14:12 .  
drwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 4096 Aug 13 11:17 …  
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 13 11:39 \_10\_\_testing  
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Aug 13 11:39 \_10\_\_testing.lock  
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Aug 13 11:05 automation  
drwxrwxrwx 4 awx awx 4096 Aug 13 11:39 .\_\_awx\_cache