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.