# distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError: could not create './config.yml': Permission denied

**URL:** https://forum.rasa.com/t/distutils-errors-distutilsfileerror-could-not-create-config-yml-permission-denied/12420
**Category:** Rasa Open Source
**Created:** [July 3, 2019, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/distutils-errors-distutilsfileerror-could-not-create-config-yml-permission-denied/12420 "2019-07-03T08:09:29Z")
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### Author: ![WendyMin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/59ef9b/32.png) [@WendyMin](https://forum.rasa.com/u/WendyMin)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2019, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/distutils-errors-distutilsfileerror-could-not-create-config-yml-permission-denied/12420/1 "2019-07-03T08:09:29Z")

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I follow [Rasa getting-started](https://rasa.com/docs/getting-started/) and [Rasa turorial](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/user-guide/rasa-tutorial/) to get started on RASA.

But when I wrote:

```auto
rasa init --no-promp

```

Here comes the error:

```auto
> (py36) ➜ rasa rasa init --no-prompt
> Welcome to Rasa! 🤖
> 
> To get started quickly, an initial project will be created.
> If you need some help, check out the documentation at https://rasa.com/docs/rasa.
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/data/anaconda/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/distutils/file_util.py", line 41, in _copy_file_contents
> fdst = open(dst, 'wb')
> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: './config.yml'
> 
> During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/home/t-comin/.local/bin/rasa", line 10, in <module>
> sys.exit(main())
> File "/home/t-comin/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/ __main__.py", line 70, in main
> cmdline_arguments.func(cmdline_arguments)
> File "/home/t-comin/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/cli/scaffold.py", line 194, in run
> init_project(args, path)
> File "/home/t-comin/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/cli/scaffold.py", line 110, in init_project
> create_initial_project(path)
> File "/home/t-comin/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/cli/scaffold.py", line 118, in create_initial_project
> copy_tree(scaffold_path(), path)
> File "/data/anaconda/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/distutils/dir_util.py", line 163, in copy_tree
> dry_run=dry_run)
> File "/data/anaconda/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/distutils/file_util.py", line 151, in copy_file
> _copy_file_contents(src, dst)
> File "/data/anaconda/envs/py36/lib/python3.6/distutils/file_util.py", line 44, in _copy_file_contents
> "could not create '%s': %s" % (dst, e.strerror))
> distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError: could not create './config.yml': Permission denied

```

My server is Ubuntu 16.04.

Can anyone help me with that? Thanks.

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