Is there a way to create an Eclipse project excluding the project name in the path?

Not sure how I can explain this better as I am a beginner to Eclipse application.

I have my web directory set up for php pages. For example, /home/www/phpsite. All the source files exist here.

However, whenever I create a project (say 'myProject') and test any files from the existing path, it includes the project folder in the path name: /home/www/phpsite/myProject/index.php and this results 'Not Found' error.

How can I run my php pages in /home/www/phpsite/index.php? The project folder name is always included in testing web pages.

I am not trying to use the workspace directory created by Eclipse. I'd like to code and modify pages directly from Eclipse to my web directory.

Thanks