After creating domain alias get “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria”

  • Hello,

    I installed on GoDaddy Windows and was running just fine including permalinks using a custom 404 handler. I then changed my domain to point to the sub folder that wordpress was installed into so as to get that folder name out of the URL path. This is “domain aliasing” in GoDaddy parlance. Now most things work sort of OK – I can login, administer everything, see the root page with my posts etc. But when I click on something from the “pages” or “categories” lists in the sidebar, I get the message “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria”.

    Any idea what is going on or what I can do besides switching from GoDaddy or to Linux neither of which are options? Actually I might switch from GoDaddy if I can find another decent windows hosting site where I can do domain aliasing so as to have different websites in different sub folders.

    Thanks, Dave

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  • Try switching your domain back to the root folder again and then have a look at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    Thread Starter codeslinger

    (@codeslinger)

    Thanks esmi. That is what I ended up doing but was hoping I could get the domain alias working. I found everything worked until I setup permalinks but since am a .NET programmer and not a php guy I did not know enough to figure out why and had little time to learn php and no easy way to debug it. The “own directory” solution worked out well though and my root folder is not too cluttered and I can still setup domain alias definitions for other sites.

    I created a writeup at https://www.49thlatitude.com/wordpress/wordpress-folder-on-godaddy-wimp listing my experience installing into a separate subfolder on GoDaddy WIMP along with a few caveats as well as another article on setting up permalinks for WordPress on a GoDaddy WIMP site at https://www.49thlatitude.com/wordpress/permalinks-on-godaddy-wimp to hopefully save some folks the time I spent and to not have to switch to Linux which seems the standard suggestion here. And hopefully they won’t run into the GoDaddy permission/scheduling bugs I ran into along with the standard GoDaddy solution of waiting up to 24 hours for something that should take seconds. You wait, complain and then finally they fix it after 24 hours.

    I also sporadically got 500 server errors and a couple timeout complaints from WordPress but at least everything is setup and running now reasonably well. I suspect I was put on a server that had not been fully/properly configured.

    – Thanks, Dave

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