Eclipse help please guys

[ToonMariner]

Hey people,

 

I have  apache 2.2.11 and php 5.3 installed on my dev machine - manual installation so no xamp and what not.

 

I have downloaded the latest eclipse pdt and need a bit of help configuring it to work with my setup.

 

Firstly I would really appreciate any guidance on installing/configuring zend debugger and xdebug - they are 'bundled' with eclipse but obviously I want to run the server I have installed already so when I test I get the error message that the debugger has not been installed as an ini directive...

 

Secondly I run virtual hosts so I have each site I work on the server and access them via www.sitename.dev.

 

in the directory structure I have public_html AND application in the root - so as not to expose all of my application code.  I want to set up similar in eclipse  but when I  got to test it states its publishing to ww.sitename.dev/project/public_html i'd like eclipse to publish all the files to coreesponding folders in the site directory and not treat the workspace root as the site root.

 

Any help would be VERY much appreciated.