Project Base Path /var/lib/awx/projects not found

I am new to all of this so forgive the newbie questions please and thank you.
A team mate utilized these links to install AWX

https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-ansible-awx-on-ubuntu-linux/
https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-netbox-network-documentation-and-management-tool-on-ubuntu-22-04/

I am able to login to the Web UI, trying to create a new project with a source control type of manual. However the project base path of /var/lib/awx/projects is not found nor can I change that path. I created those directories manually but I am still unable to save projects to the directories. awx-operator is being used

Here are the versions of what was installed:

Ubuntu 22.04

AWX-2.13.1

Kubernetes Version Info----
Client Version: v1.28.7+k3s1
Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3
Server Version: v1.28.7+k3s1

Docker info—
Client:
Version: 24.0.5
API version: 1.43
Go version: go1.20.3
Git commit: 24.0.5-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
Built: Mon Aug 21 19:50:14 2023
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Context: default

Server:
Engine:
Version: 24.0.5
API version: 1.43 (minimum version 1.12)
Go version: go1.20.3
Git commit: 24.0.5-0ubuntu1~22.04.1
Built: Mon Aug 21 19:50:14 2023
OS/Arch: linux/amd64
Experimental: false
containerd:
Version: 1.7.2
GitCommit:
runc:
Version: 1.1.7-0ubuntu1~22.04.2
GitCommit:
docker-init:
Version: 0.19.0
GitCommit: