Where do I install the Pico CMS files?

The install docs for PicoCMS say

1. First download and extract the latest version of Pico.
2. Upload the files to your server (via FTP or some other deployment).
3. That’s it. Tweak the .htaccess file if required.

For step 2, into which folder do I upload/copy the files? There’s several choices for us novices! On my Windows/XAMPP setup, copying the files into the root xampp folder (the one that has apache, cgi-bin, php etc.) was a disaster.

I’ll need answers for a Windows/XAMPP setup, plus for a “typical” shared host web server.

Answer

Actually wherever you want.

Pico is your whole project, so once you download it rename the Pico-master folder into the name you need your webapp/site to be, than start editing.

I use MAMP (Mac OSX) and I usually work this way:

- Localhost
  - ProjectName1
    - Folders        
  - ProjectName2
  - ProjectName3

Perhaps the best way for Pico is to do this:

- www (localhost folder name)
  - myProject
    - content
    - lib
    - plugins
    - themes
    - vendor
  - anotherProject
  - etc...

The point is that your content of the site is in the content folder and you don’t want to move it from there otherwise you are to reconfigure Pico.

Than your site will be at http://localhost/myProject