Forcing HTTPS is removing the trailing slash on domain and causing incorrect URL

Ubuntu 18.04, Apache, php7.2, Wordpress (all plugins deactivated)

Can’t figure this out. Trying to force all to https://www but here is the problem. If I enter the following domain, it loads.

https://www.example.com/post/

However, if I remove the ‘s’ in the domain

http://www.example.com/post/

it reverts to this. Notice the trailing slash is gone after the .com, as well as the trailing slash at end of URL.

https://www.example.compost

from the very top of my 000-default.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName example.com
   Redirect permanent / https://www.example.com/
</VirtualHost>

my htaccess

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^44\.66\.7\.278$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301] 
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

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