After uploading and extracting the drupal installation into my public_html folder, should I leave the unzipped contents in the newly created drupal folder, or should I move everything out of that folder and directly into the public_html directory?
That's what I take this following quote to mean (and it makes sense to me, since otherwise, to access the website people would have to direct their browser to www.example.com/drupal-7.15/), but I'm slightly confused by the wording "a directory within ... your public HTML directory." That makes it sound like it should be in a folder in public_html.
From the install.txt file:
This will create a new directory drupal-x.y/ containing all Drupal files and directories. Then, to move the contents of that directory into a directory within your web server's document root or your public HTML directory, continue with this command: mv drupal-x.y/* drupal-x.y/.htaccess /path/to/your/installation
Is this simply a case that I am misreading the text, and incorrectly applying the "into a directory within" to modify both "your web server's document root" and "your public HTML directory" when it should only be modifying the "document root" phrase?