diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 261de87721..5830eb99e7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Our versioning strategy is as follows:
 * `[templates/nextjs-sxa]` Fixed Image component when there is using Banner variant which set property background-image when image is empty. ([#1689](https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/1689)) ([#1692](https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/1692))
 * `[templates/nextjs-sxa]` Fix feature `show Grid column` in Experience Editor. ([#1704](https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/1704))
 * `[sitecore-jss-nextjs] [templates/nextjs-xmcloud]` SDK initialization rejections are now correctly handled. Errors should no longer occur after getSDK() promises resolve when they shouldn't (for example, getting Events SDK in development environment) ([#1712](https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/1712) [#1715](https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/1715) [#1716](https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/1716))
+* `[sitecore-jss-nextjs]` Fix redirects middleware for working with absolute url where is using site language context ([#1727](https://github.com/Sitecore/jss/pull/1727))
 
 ### 🛠 Breaking Changes
 
diff --git a/packages/sitecore-jss-nextjs/src/middleware/redirects-middleware.ts b/packages/sitecore-jss-nextjs/src/middleware/redirects-middleware.ts
index a17ecd4474..63b212cb84 100644
--- a/packages/sitecore-jss-nextjs/src/middleware/redirects-middleware.ts
+++ b/packages/sitecore-jss-nextjs/src/middleware/redirects-middleware.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import {
 import { debug } from '@sitecore-jss/sitecore-jss';
 import { MiddlewareBase, MiddlewareBaseConfig } from './middleware';
 
-const REGEXP_CONTEXT_SITE_LANG = new RegExp(/\$siteLang/, 'gi');
+const REGEXP_CONTEXT_SITE_LANG = new RegExp(/\$siteLang/, 'i');
 const REGEXP_ABSOLUTE_URL = new RegExp('^(?:[a-z]+:)?//', 'i');
 
 /**
@@ -101,7 +101,10 @@ export class RedirectsMiddleware extends MiddlewareBase {
       // Find context site language and replace token
       if (
         REGEXP_CONTEXT_SITE_LANG.test(existsRedirect.target) &&
-        !REGEXP_ABSOLUTE_URL.test(existsRedirect.target)
+        !(
+          REGEXP_ABSOLUTE_URL.test(existsRedirect.target) &&
+          existsRedirect.target.includes(hostname)
+        )
       ) {
         existsRedirect.target = existsRedirect.target.replace(
           REGEXP_CONTEXT_SITE_LANG,