DNS to multiple WP directory only showing IP

Ok, so I am wanting to do separate installs of WP blogs -each one in its own directory. The problem is, it currently just shows the IP and the directory name, not the clean domain name.

If I have foo.com and bar.com, when the domain is followed it comes out to 168.192.0.1/foo or 168.192.0.1/bar

Of course, the goal is to just have foo.com or bar.com

So do I need to re-do this as a WP Multisite setup or should I forge ahead, provided there is a tip I am missing? Updating the domain setting on my hosting and the dns forwarding did not help.

thanks in advance!!