Right now I have everything setup so my individual websites are running on my WAMP locally, and I edited by httpd.conf to create an alias and virtualhost for each website so I can call each development website in my browser like so:
http://www.myfirstsite.dev
http://www.mysecondsite.dev
etc.
I have my apache configuration setup so my websites can reside on a seperate harddrive (D:\) but still think it is under document root using the alias and directory declaration in httpd.conf.
For instance, for my 'myfirstsite.dev', the 'web document root' file path is like so:
D:\mysites\myfirstsite\public_html
Which can be accessed in the browser by going to:
http://www.myfirstsite.dev/
So here is the problem I am running into with Eclipse. It keeps asking me to create a "workspace" directory?? I really don't want to create a workspace directory because I already have all my directory structures laid out perfectly. My website is already created, so it isn't like I want to create a whole new website/project. But just to appease Eclipse, I went ahead and created a 'workspace' and it created a folder called 'workspace' at:
D:\mysites\myfirstsite\workspace
Then I tried to import all my existing files and folders for this website into that folder... but I can't. It said I have to create a "New Project", but that requires a new folder for that as well. So I put in 'myfirstsite' as the project name and it created:
D:\mysites\myfirstsite\workspace\myfirstsite
As you can see, this screws up my whole apache configuration that points to the folder system I originially had before. What's the deal with all this "project" and "workspace" stuff? Is there anyway to just use it to edit my files without creating all this extra stuff? And just from some fool around testing I am doing with it, it seems to not like me editing/deleting/moving files that are part of any project/workspace outside of Eclipse. For instance, I deleted some folders/files in Windows Explorer and when I went back into Eclipse, it was still showing them in the document structure.
Any advice on how I can get by all this project/workspace stuff? Or at least make sense of it? The documentation has left me confused as to how this all works and how controlling eclipse is over my files and folders. Thanks for your help. Looks like a great editor, but I just want to make sure I can use it under my current configurations. Thanks!