I was getting this error whenever Apache runs a gcloud command.

WARNING: Could not setup log file in /usr/share/httpd/.config/gcloud/logs, 
(Error: Could not create directory [/usr/share/httpd/.config/gcloud/logs/2025.01.06]: Permission denied.

Please verify that you have permissions to write to the parent directory..
The configuration directory may not be writable. To learn more, see https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/configurations#creating_a_configuration
ERROR: (gcloud.compute.disks.list) Could not create directory [/usr/share/httpd/.config/gcloud]: Permission denied.

Please verify that you have permissions to write to the parent directory.

So, here’s the fix. The .config directory under /usr/share/httpd/ is missing.

mkdir /usr/share/httpd/.config
chown -R apache:apache /usr/share/httpd/.config

Create the directory and change ownership to apache:apache.