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normally, phpmyadmin is configured as alias in wamp packages
and some of the projects can be configured in virtual server with port number.
Can anybody explain what’s the difference between these two and in which scenario any of the feature can be used?
Alias
An “alias” in Apache can be a directory alias, i.e.
this means you can use http://example.org/phpmyadmin/ and http://www2.example.org/phpmyadmin/ (every host on your apache instance) to access phpmyadmin.
Virtual Host
Virtual hosts are used to host multiple domains on a single apache instance. You can have one virtual host for each IP your server has, or the same IP but different ports, or the same IP, the same port but different host names. The latter are called “name based vhosts”.
Each virtual host is configured by itself and does not influence the other vhosts.
There is also a
ServerAliasdirective which adds another name to the name based virtual host.