Hi,

Our company hosts its website on Debian Linux using Apache 2.4. It uses the WordPress CMS platform and a plugin to direct from .php to .html, which seems to be working just fine.

But I've noticed a weird issue that I can't seem to fix. Here's an example.

When you look at the URL in the Firefox browser it does not have a slash at the end of the URL and looks like this: https://www.westgatecomputers.com

If I copy it from the address bar it loads with a trailing slash like this: https://www.westgatecomputers.com/

Here's the problem I have. When I am logged into the Google Search Console and using the robots.txt tester I hover over the link, "See live robots.txt" it shows me the correct link with the / before robots.txt but after clicked the leading / gets removed from the URL.

Before Clicked Link: https://www.westgatecomputers.com/robots.txt
After Clicked Link: https://www.westgatecomputers.comrobots.txt

The later link obviously results in an error, but how do I fix this?

This same issue was happening on the old website links in Google's index as well.

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Here are contents of my .htaccess file.

# BEGIN Comet Cache WmVuQ2FjaGU (the WmVuQ2FjaGU marker is required for Comet Cache; do not remove)

# Enable GZIP compression.
<IfModule deflate_module>
<IfModule filter_module>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain text/html
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml application/xml application/xhtml+xml application/xml-dtd
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rdf+xml application/rss+xml application/atom+xml image/svg+xml
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascript
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/opentype application/font-otf application/x-font-otf
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE font/truetype application/font-ttf application/x-font-ttf
</IfModule>
</IfModule>

# END Comet Cache WmVuQ2FjaGU

AddHandler cgi-script .bat .exe .pl .cgi
Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Clicking on the Before link does bring me to the text. Which shows many instances of:
Is there a https://www.westgatecomputers.com tester? Perhaps the line in red above needs to be added somewhere.