Before I edit the wiki...

[Timbow]

I was looking at the GS wiki pages for installation. They read:

Unzip the contents to a new folder on your local computer.
Upload that whole folder with an FTP client to your host. You can upload everything to either the root of your server, or within a subfolder or sub domain.

I was going to change it to

Unzip the contents to a new folder on your local computer.
Upload only the contents of that folder with an FTP client to your host. Upload everything to /public_html, /www or to a subfolder or sub domain.

Then I thought 'Maybe I have been doing it wrong the twenty times or so I have installed GS?'

Should I alter it?

[Carlos]

The way I usually do is: upload the zip, uncompress to a folder with the CPanel file manager (and then browse the site and install). Faster than ftp uploading all the uncompressed files.

[Timbow]

I can't edit the wiki anyway. I am a suspected CSRF Terrorist

[shawn_a]

all hosts are different and do not use www or public folders.

[Timbow]

all hosts are different and do not use www or public folders.

True enough. What would you call 'The designated website folder where you would normally find index.htm which is often called www or public_html'?

[shovenose]

It's almost always public_html. Also sometimes httpdocs. These are the things I wish would be standardized!

[Connie]

all hosts are different and do not use www or public folders.

True enough. What would you call 'The designated website folder where you would normally find index.htm which is often called www or public_html'?

Timbow, I support that explanation. Go ahead ;=)

[sal]

Wordpress just call it the "root directory of your web server". You can find the Wordpress install description here for their specific wording.

[shovenose]

I beg to differ... nobody uses .htm anymore it's almost always .html