title: How do I give composer permission to create folders in var/www/html
body: <p>I am trying to create a laravel project with the command in Ubuntu 16.04</p>
  
  <pre><code>    composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, I am getting an error</p>
  
  <pre><code>    ErrorException mkdir(): permission denied. 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have read lots of resources about changing permissions but I have also read some that suggest that changing the folder permissions for /var/www/html is not good for security.</p>
  
  <p>I want to know the proper and hence right way to allow composer access to create a laravel project within this directory. P.S I am coming from a windows development environment with minimal linux experience.  </p>