Hello mostmodernist_jenny,

mostmodernist_jenny wrote:

Is there any reason why I shouldn't install b2 at the root level, by shifting the contents of the "blog" folder out and up?

You only need the contents of the "blog" folder for b2evo to work properly -- so yes, you can move its contents to the root level.

Thanks Tblue.

I was confused because of the hierarchy of folder and files. What is the significance of having the language files, Gettext folder and Doc folder outside of the Blog directory?

Well, all files not contained in the blog folder are not needed by b2evo itself (that's why you can safely delete them):
The docs are only there to help users with the installation.
The gettext folder contains language files for the installation docs and a script to generate the localized docs.

Basically the "blogs" folder is where all the stuff your server needs is at. So the other stuff is part of the distribution, but not mission critical to having a web. You can have it in the root level, or 8 levels down, or in plain old 'blogs' if you like. Personally I've never had an installation that was actually in a 'blogs' folder :)