URL in multisite

I have wordpress installed on Windows 7 using Xampp. It is installed in localhost/wordpress.

I have setup a multisite with one site. I have amended my virtual hosts and hosts and htaccess files as follows :-
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127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 wordpress
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‘<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot “D:/xampp/htdocs/”
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot D:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress
ServerName wordpress
<Directory “D:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress”>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride FileInfo
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>’
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‘RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /wordpress/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]’
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From my brower I am able to access the following:-

localhost —> Xampp Admin
wordpress —> localhost/wordpress
localhost/wordpress/tpc —> site 1
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Ideally I would simple like to type in tpc to get to my site.

I know in drupal, which creates actual folders for its sites, this would be done with ease, but I stuck on getting it to work on the Virtual Sites created by wordpress.