# Not able to identify "Project" folder **URL:** \ **Category:** AWX Project\ **Tags:** awx, kubernetes\ **Created:** [October 20, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/not-able-to-identify-project-folder/37253 "2022-10-20T13:54:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rene2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@Rene2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rene2)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/not-able-to-identify-project-folder/37253/1 "2022-10-20T13:54:12Z")
Hi everyone, Newbie to AWX, and facing problem when creating a new project. Not able to locate any directory/folder under /var/lib/awx/projects. Can anyone help me address this issue? I have already create folder on server where AWX was installed. Then connect to minikube container and created folder there too, but still no success. Deploy AWX using awx-operator using tag v0.30.0, running Kubernetes with Minikube. Any help appreciated. Thanks. ![issue.png](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/5/5f22b55abbc7903ba3c561f2a00a1fed98b32511.png) ---
**Author:** ![AWX\_Project](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@AWX\_Project](https://forum.ansible.com/u/AWX_Project)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/not-able-to-identify-project-folder/37253/2 "2022-10-21T17:09:16Z")
We highly recommend using SCM based projects where possible (e.g. git). Can you try it with SCM and see if that works for you? AWX Team ---
**Author:** ![Rene2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@Rene2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rene2)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/not-able-to-identify-project-folder/37253/3 "2022-10-21T17:30:07Z")
Using SCM through GitHub did work as a charm, even able to resync updates without an issue, however about to begin a task that external access is not allowed. Not sure why SCM Manual is there if we can´t use it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Premchand\_Gupta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d07c76/32.png) [@Premchand\_Gupta](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Premchand_Gupta)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/not-able-to-identify-project-folder/37253/4 "2022-10-21T18:07:40Z")
Hi, Please check the permission of the folder which you have created under project, it should be readable by user awx. or owned by user awx ---
**Author:** ![Rene2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9de0a6/32.png) [@Rene2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rene2)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/not-able-to-identify-project-folder/37253/5 "2022-10-24T14:09:27Z")
Hi Premchand and AWS project group, Thanks for reply. User (ec2-user) owns folder “awx” and all its contents but still not able to access playbooks/task on project folder as shown on evidence down below. Do this access/permission must be grant on server (/var/lib/awx) where container was deployed on inside container itself? Also playbooks/tasks on this project folder must be under a git repo (git init .) or no versioning required? Project folder already working with Github repo, does it works with Azure Dev repo? At least we can have some authentication process (client pre-req) to store/retrieve scripts. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/2X/4/4421bf07149f14d74ccab1ab8361d6bb9895e3c0.png) Regards, Renê. ---
**Author:** ![lgrullon2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/lgrullon2/32/9470_2.png) [@lgrullon2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/lgrullon2)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2023, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/not-able-to-identify-project-folder/37253/6 "2023-04-30T03:24:23Z")
I am having the issue with a brand new deployment using AWX 22.1.0 Hope someone can provide us a cue on how to get manual projects working. ---
**Author:** ![area51coder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@area51coder](https://forum.ansible.com/u/area51coder)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2023, 8:21am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/not-able-to-identify-project-folder/37253/7 "2023-05-04T08:21:05Z")
can you provide more info about, as this is very old thread, are you also facing same issue with aws ec2 users ? Regards Ravi [yoursmartbook.blogspot.com](http://yoursmartbook.blogspot.com)