# Failing to add a galaxy role with a "documentation\_url" 404 error from github api

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/failing-to-add-a-galaxy-role-with-a-documentation-url-404-error-from-github-api/19307>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** galaxy-ng\
**Created:** [September 19, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failing-to-add-a-galaxy-role-with-a-documentation-url-404-error-from-github-api/19307 "2015-09-19T21:09:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alon\_Nisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e99b99/32.png) [@Alon\_Nisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Alon_Nisser)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failing-to-add-a-galaxy-role-with-a-documentation-url-404-error-from-github-api/19307/1 "2015-09-19T21:09:05Z")

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I’m trying to add my first galaxy [role](https://github.com/alonisser/ansible_fail2ban_nginx)

and I’m getting this error:

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**Author:** ![Alon\_Nisser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e99b99/32.png) [@Alon\_Nisser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Alon_Nisser)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/failing-to-add-a-galaxy-role-with-a-documentation-url-404-error-from-github-api/19307/2 "2015-10-04T12:49:12Z")

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If anyone bumps into this error:  
turns out that ‘documentation\_url’ has nothing to do with the ansible meta parameter with the same name, but just a sad coincidence… ☹  
The issue is really a 404 from github api trying to find the meta/main.yml file in the expected place.  
Which turns to be is in the root folder of the repo.

Hope this would help someone else who bumps into this error