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You may choose it, but it has to be below your web root, eg:
home
|_public_html
| |_index.html
| |_index.php
| |_mainfile.php
| |_install
| |_modules
| |_system
|
|_xoops_trust_path
|_xoops_data
| |_configs
| |_caches
| |_smarty_cache
| |_smarty_compile
| |_xoops_cache
|_xoops_lib
|_modules
|_protector
NB - Not all files and directories are depicted.
- home represents a directory path to below your website root (/home/public_html/) eg /var/www/youraccount/.
- the name of the webroot directory public_html may be different at your server eg htdocs.
- not all servers support execution of PHP files in directories other than the web root (and some have a specific directory for it).