Installing Drupal

I would like to have a Drupal multisite installation on desktop as an Eclipse project, so that to match the following project layout.

I have the Eclipse workspace - "www-eclipse" - set-up as a virtual server and I execute each project, through the "Running configurations", using this request: "www-eclipse/Name_of_the_Project/". "Name_of_the_project" is the folder in the workspace where my index.php files are located.

I have done an initial Drupal installation in www-eclipse/Drupal/ for a site called "Default", with corresponding "sites/default/" folder. I can access the site by typing in the browser "www-eclipse/Drupal".
My problem is that I want to create and access other Drupal sites - site_a, site_b, etc. - with files in the "sites/site_a", "sites/site_b", etc. folders, but WITHOUT creating a virtual server each time. In other words, I want to access the sites through subfolders rather than by site URL. Just as pseudo URL, something like this: "www-eclipse/Drupal/default", "www-eclipse/Drupal/site_a", "www-eclipse/Drupal/site_b", etc.

The fact that Drupal allows multisite with unique Front-end controller makes me thinking that it may be possible, even if I have to pass the site's names or folders as parameters in the calling URL.

Solution:
It's all about the way Drupal is handling the URL string.

I have setup my own web server using ClearOS. Everything works great! Finally got all the Drupal 7.x need files and installed the website. My problem is when I go to update themes, or modules, if warns me that i'm about to use FTP which is sending my information in plain text.

I'm using apache web server. I'm just not sure how to go about making it so that it uses the secure FTP.

I may not have given enough info, so just let me know. Thanks!

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I would like to have all Drupal pages using SSL - and always have www in front of the domain - is there an easy way to achieve it? I have installed another program in a subfolder which should not be affected.

Hi there. I've downloaded CKEeditor and openWYSIWYG and put them in the right directory, 'installed them' and I've tried enabling them for the different input formats. But they don't show when editing/creating a content page.

How do I enable them?

For this part of the .htaccess:

# Serve correct content types, and prevent mod_deflate double gzip.
RewriteRule \.css\.gz$ - [T=text/css,E=no-gzip:1]
RewriteRule \.js\.gz$ - [T=text/javascript,E=no-gzip:1]

Microsoft URL Rewrite says:

the rule cannot be converted into an equivalent IIS format because of unsupported flags: E

Can anyone help? Thanks very much!