Looking at my cpanel, i seem to have two sets of folders the same, in public html the same folders exist that also exist in the www folder. Do you need both ? Is there a reason for this?

It's the same folder structure under two different labels; 'www' is mapped to the actual 'public_html' folder. Nothing to worry about.

As Travelling-light stated, it is probably that one folder is the real folder and the other folder is "virtual" and just a pointer to the real folder.  You can verify this by creating a file in one folder and see if it gets replicated to the other folder.

Quote from: ShazamImages on September 05, 2013, 11:38
As Travelling-light stated, it is probably that one folder is the real folder and the other folder is "virtual" and just a pointer to the real folder.  You can verify this by creating a file in one folder and see if it gets replicated to the other folder.

What is creating that virtual folder and why is it being created?

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Quote from: ShazamImages on September 05, 2013, 11:38
As Travelling-light stated, it is probably that one folder is the real folder and the other folder is "virtual" and just a pointer to the real folder.  You can verify this by creating a file in one folder and see if it gets replicated to the other folder.

What is creating that virtual folder and why is it being created?

The web hosting service is most probably creating it, but you would have to ask them as to why.