diff --git a/lib/app/components/nuxt.js b/lib/app/components/nuxt.js
index 66f15a686d..333762ac4e 100644
--- a/lib/app/components/nuxt.js
+++ b/lib/app/components/nuxt.js
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ export default {
   props: ['nuxtChildKey'],
   render(h) {
     if (this.nuxt._redirected) {
-      return h('div', [ 'redirecting.' ])
+      return h('div', [ '<%= messages.redirect %>' ])
     }
     // If there is some error
     if (this.nuxt.err) {
diff --git a/lib/app/utils.js b/lib/app/utils.js
index 297c2df480..f78973d570 100644
--- a/lib/app/utils.js
+++ b/lib/app/utils.js
@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ export async function setContext(app, context) {
         path = status
         status = 302
       }
-      if (path.charAt(0) === '/' && path.charAt(1) !== '/') {
+      // "/absolute/route", "./relative/route" or "../relative/route"
+      if (/(^[.]{1,2}\/)|(^\/(?!\/))/.test(path)) {
         app.context.next({
           path: path,
           query: query,
diff --git a/lib/common/options.js b/lib/common/options.js
index 09648b659b..34e7b3e34a 100755
--- a/lib/common/options.js
+++ b/lib/common/options.js
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ Options.defaults = {
     back_to_home: 'Back to the home page',
     server_error_details: 'An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details.',
     client_error: 'Error',
-    client_error_details: 'An error occurred while rendering the page. Check developer tools console for details.'
+    client_error_details: 'An error occurred while rendering the page. Check developer tools console for details.',
+    redirect: 'Redirecting to external page.'
   }
 }
diff --git a/test/basic.ssr.test.js b/test/basic.ssr.test.js
index 0ac2f77736..42fca2d4a2 100755
--- a/test/basic.ssr.test.js
+++ b/test/basic.ssr.test.js
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ test('/redirect -> external link', async t => {
     }
   })
   t.is(headers.Location, 'https://nuxtjs.org')
-  t.true(html.includes('<div>redirecting.</div>'))
+  t.true(html.includes('<div>Redirecting to external page.</div>'))
 })
 
 test('/special-state -> check window.__NUXT__.test = true', async t => {