Attempting to use BrowserMobProxy with Selenium, getting permission denied error

Question

Here is the stacktrace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "facebook_scraper.py", line 185, in <module>
fb_scraper()
File "facebook_scraper.py", line 36, in fb_scraper
server.start()
File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/browsermobproxy/server.py", line 56, in start
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 711, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1308, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

I am following instructions from this page

Answer 1

Check that the user running the Python script has the permission to run the browsermob proxy batch file, that should be a .bat file found in path/to/browsermob-proxy

server = Server("path/to/browsermob-proxy")