This is how I do it for local and live server.
PHP Code:
application
system
public_html
- assets
-- css
-- js
-- img
-- images
-- etc;
-index.php
you need to edit the index.php file and add ../ to the application and system folder names ../application ../system
This way your application and system directories are in the root of your server.
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