change the root directory references All, we have a website built by third party company and they gave us the pack which includes cms, craft and MySQL database. But our hosting server is hardcoded to run the website from public_html folder (can't change this). Could you tell me how can change cms references to public_html? Tried to copy everything under cms folder to public_html only to see misconfiguration errors. Let me know if you need more info.
The actual web root name doesn’t matter. Usually it’s “public_html” or something similar, and Craft’s “public” folder is only meant to represent that folder.

There are no references to the public/public_html folder within Craft itself; it’s the other way around: The index.php file within public/public_html is the one referencing Craft, via its $craftPath variable.

So here’s what you need to do:


Upload the craft/ folder to your web server, ideally on the same level as your public_html/ folder rather than inside it, but if you don’t have permission to do that, inside public_html/ is OK.
Upload the public/index.php file into your public_html/ folder
Upload the public/htaccess file into your public_html/ folder and rename it to .htaccess
Open up public_html/index.php and make sure the $craftPath variable is a valid path to the craft/ folder, wherever it is.