Cannot upload project - appcfg.py permission denied

Question

I am trying to upload my newly created project to app engine but receiving "permission denied" when running appcfg.py update . in my project directory.

Things I have tried:

• Tried specifying the full path to project appcfg.py update **path**
• Tried checking permissions on appcfg.py and appcfg.pyc are read & write
• Tried following all answers found on the only relevant post I can find: google app engine - permission denied error
• Ran gcloud auth login and logged into google via Chrome.

No idea what else I can do, I'm new to this and this problem is just confusing me further.

Answer 1

 # python2.7 /usr/local/bin/appcfg.py update app.yaml 

This is the call I do having both python2.7 and python3.x on my mac.

Answer 2

In my case, I had to change access permission of the appcfg.py file.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chmod read more about chmod here.

Answer 3

I usually receive this error when not specifying python before appcfg.py. For example:

python appcfg.py update ~/mycodeproject/app.yaml

Answer 4

I used gcloud app deploy instead and it worked.