htaccess and /public_html/

[eluser]ironlung[/eluser]
Hi there I have been looking at htaccess help sites for a few hours and feel dizzy


I have a webserver that just gives me a root directory, I have no /html/ or /public_html/ subdirectories. I want to create /public_html/on there, place my index.php in there and then create /application/ and /system/ directories off the root, this would give me the required security setup recommended in the guidelines for CI.

All this is working at home in my dev environment to be honest I think I need help first with how to redirect all requests from the server root to /public_html/ via a .htaccess file first.

I hope my query isn't too confusing, I know I am

Regards