How do I give composer permission to create folders in var/www/html

Question

I am trying to create a laravel project with the command in Ubuntu 16.04

    composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

However, I am getting an error

    ErrorException mkdir(): permission denied. 

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.

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.

Answer 1

Use chmod command:

chmod -R 755 var/www/html

If you have access to the root user:

sudo chmod -R 755 var/www/html