diff --git a/system/Autoloader/Autoloader.php b/system/Autoloader/Autoloader.php
index 359e5eb1af6a..598ae7b61923 100644
--- a/system/Autoloader/Autoloader.php
+++ b/system/Autoloader/Autoloader.php
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ protected function discoverComposerNamespaces()
 			unset($paths['CodeIgniter\\']);
 		}
 
-		// Composer stores paths with trailng slash. We don't.
+		// Composer stores namespaces with trailing slash. We don't.
 		$newPaths = [];
 		foreach ($paths as $key => $value)
 		{
diff --git a/system/Autoloader/FileLocator.php b/system/Autoloader/FileLocator.php
index bdbb91f9335c..9de461a888f5 100644
--- a/system/Autoloader/FileLocator.php
+++ b/system/Autoloader/FileLocator.php
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ public function listNamespaceFiles(string $prefix, string $path): array
 		// autoloader->getNamespace($prefix) returns an array of paths for that namespace
 		foreach ($this->autoloader->getNamespace($prefix) as $namespacePath)
 		{
-			$fullPath = realpath($namespacePath . $path);
+			$fullPath = realpath(rtrim($namespacePath, '/') . '/' . $path);
 
 			if (! is_dir($fullPath))
 			{