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When using projects for multi-deployments, it looks like I should be able to have my deployment.yaml file in the parent directory of all the project folders; however, when I try to deploy I get the following error (i’ll put it in the thread)

```line 186, in deploy
    with open("prefect.yaml", "r") as f:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'prefect.yaml'```
I have the following folder structure:

flows /
    project_1 /
        flow.py
        prefect.yaml
    deployment.yaml

I know it’s looking for that `prefect.yaml` file, but does the deployment.yaml file have to be in the same directory?

Yep! The `prefect.yaml` file should also be at the root of the project.

Gotcha. I was following this example: <https://github.com/PrefectHQ/actions-prefect-deploy/tree/main/examples/multi-deployment>

Which shows that the prefect.yaml file can be in the sub directory

Ah, we’ll need to update that example. Thanks for bringing that to our attention!

No problem. So if I have multiple projects what would be the best route? So essentially each project can have it’s own deployment.yaml file?

Yep, multiple nested deployment.yaml and prefect.yaml files would also be a pattern that works. You’ll need to execute `prefect deploy` from each of those nested directories if your decide to use that pattern.