In our tutorial, let’s assume that the name of Document Root is “www”. Access the root folder of the site with your FTP software and find the directories xoops_data and xoops_lib. If possible, move these two directories up one level to the same level as the root folder and re-name them to obscure names. If re-locating the folders is not possible due to restrictions by the host, re-name both folders and note the new names. This change is for site security (see Appendix 4). The re-location and re-naming of the xoops_lib and xoops_data will ideally result in a structure like: