I was moving a Laravel project to a ubuntu virtual machine.Steps that I followed: 1. Installed Xampp 2. Another thing which is required is Composer 3. Now the thing is when we try to install Laravel project inside our htdocs folder it through an error 4. To resolve this error first create a folder inside your htdocs. 5 grant read and write permissions to this folder by running this commands 6. You may get another error while installing is (“mbstring”