domain name changes to IP

This happens every time I change it ….. it breaks my site.

I change the workdpress settings to https://www.mackconsult.com/ and it totally breaks my site. Can’t even log into it to make the changes back.

Please help me ……

By manually editing the wp-config.php file I get it back up and running but I still want the domain name to stick when people view my site ….

See Changing_The_Site_URL for details of how to do this.

You will need to move all your files out of the /wordpress directory and then change the site URL using the guide like esmi gave you.

But I want to maintain the wordpress directory or maybe move it to say a mackconsult directory or something so that I can run some other test websites on this server in other folders.

You need to point https://www.mackconsult.com/ to https://24.22.111.106/wordpress/ via your name servers.

In that case I believe you have two alternatives.

1) Give WordPress it’s own directory https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

2) Setup a virtual host on Ubuntu so that it can run multiple sites on the same IP (preferred option). This takes a little bit more work but is worth it. I do this on a server running ubuntu as well. Here’s a decent guide: https://blog.code4hire.com/2011/03/setting-up-virtual-hosts-for-apache-on-ubuntu-for-local-development/

I actually already run two sites.

https://www.mackconsult.com/ -> https://24.22.111.106/ -> which is currently running off of \share\web\wordpress

Then I also have
https://race-to-remember.com/ -> https://24.22.111.106/racetoremember/ -> which is currently running off of \share\web\racetoremember

So I have my qnap alread running virtual host ….. I just want to make it so that the the 24.22.111.106 is associated with the domain name.

You need to point https://www.mackconsult.com/ to https://24.22.111.106/wordpress/ via your name servers.

esmi is correct. You said you are forwarding to the IP. You need to create an A record for the root of your domain to point to 24.22.111.106

https://support.godaddy.com/help/article/5289/updating-your-domain-names-ip-address-for-forwarding

Okay I have modified the A record to point to 24.22.111.106
It will take 24 hrs for it to stick though ….