Wow, that's a very clever way to get it working! I tried it and it does indeed work. Thank you!
Sorry, I didn't mean I don't want the address bar to
never change; I meant I didn't want to redirect visitors from
www.mysite.com to
www.mysite.com/drupal (which seems fairly easy to do with .htaccess, but then they would see the address bar change).
Ideally, I'd like visitors to be able to go to
www.mysite.com and see what is in my public_html/drupal folder. The way I have it now, they would see a directory listing containing a drupal folder and a phpBB3 folder.
Of course, I could accomplish this by moving all the stuff from my drupal folder to public_html folder, but I'd like to keep things organized and keep the drupal site contained within the drupal folder.
I know there's some simple way to do this... I tried creating a symlink of the index.php file in the drupal folder in the public_html folder, but it didn't work.
Seems like I would need the drupal folder to be the RewriteBase for all the links from within the drupal folder to work correctly... (I'm not sure if this is the right variable, but after reading about it in the httpd.conf file, it seems like I'll need to incorporate it.