Further Security Steps - subdomains setup problems

[popart]

I'm trying to install WHMCS for the first time. I'm putting it in a subdomain:

http://my.hostsite.net

 

However, I'm having problems with the Further Security Steps. First, I'm unable to move the three folders ("attachments", "downloads" and "templates_c"). Could some please explain, what does 'outside of the public accessible folder file tree' mean? Where exactly do I move those folders? When I try to move them into the "my" subdirectory, I get a permissions error. And I can't change permissions on my subdirectory.

 

Second, what should my file path be? Please tell me how I should edit this code:

 

$templates_compiledir = "/home/whmcs/templates_c/";

$attachments_dir = "/home/whmcs/attachments/";

$downloads_dir = "/home/whmcs/downloads/";

 

Thanks!

[bear]

Assuming a cpanel hosting server, your document root is "/home/username/public_html". Files to show visitors go in "public_html", and anything above that (/home/username) will be unreachable via the web, but fine for WHMCS to access.

 

The paths would be:

$templates_compiledir = "/home/username/templates_c/";

$attachments_dir = "/home/username/attachments/";

$downloads_dir = "/home/username/downloads/";

 

In all the above cases, "username" is your actual cpanel username.

[popart]

Same thing if I'm installing into a subdomain?

 

And I assume "httpdocs" is the same as "public_html" ?? (I'm on mediatemple with Plesk.)

[popart]

using a subdirectory "my" (with Plesk), I think my paths would be... (can someone tell me if this is correct??)

 

$templates_compiledir = "/subdomains/my/templates_c/";

$attachments_dir = "/subdomains/my/attachments/";

$downloads_dir = "/subdomains/my/downloads/";

 

BUT, I'm unable to move those folders to the subdirectory. Plesk doesn't allow me to change the permissions for my subdirectory. So, how can I move the folders?