"scripts" folder (outside of htdocs)

Hi

When i installed, i had Apache and mySQL, so i placed everything from htdocs in to the root of the apache served directory and that works well, however now i am trying to get scheduled content working in Windows, i need some items in the scripts directory, which isnt on the web server.

So can this scripts be located anywhere? how is it referenced to the data in htdocs? in the original zip file its

root (ZIP file as of 12.0.2)

scripts
htdocs

In the Apache we only have all the contents of htdocs, so scripts isnt anywhere in the tree (and cant be), how is the install suggested when the use of the scripts directory is required?