diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/84540-uri-relative-redirect.yml b/changelogs/fragments/84540-uri-relative-redirect.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..837530ee329
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/84540-uri-relative-redirect.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+  - uri - Form location correctly when the server returns a relative redirect (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/84540)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py b/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py
index 448b8f98ac9..e19450b358d 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/uri.py
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ from datetime import datetime, timezone
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule, sanitize_keys
 from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type, iteritems, string_types
-from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode, urlsplit
+from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlencode, urljoin
 from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native, to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.collections_abc import Mapping, Sequence
 from ansible.module_utils.urls import (
@@ -505,27 +505,6 @@ def write_file(module, dest, content, resp):
         os.remove(tmpsrc)
 
 
-def absolute_location(url, location):
-    """Attempts to create an absolute URL based on initial URL, and
-    next URL, specifically in the case of a ``Location`` header.
-    """
-
-    if '://' in location:
-        return location
-
-    elif location.startswith('/'):
-        parts = urlsplit(url)
-        base = url.replace(parts[2], '')
-        return '%s%s' % (base, location)
-
-    elif not location.startswith('/'):
-        base = os.path.dirname(url)
-        return '%s/%s' % (base, location)
-
-    else:
-        return location
-
-
 def kv_list(data):
     """ Convert data into a list of key-value tuples """
     if data is None:
@@ -773,7 +752,7 @@ def main():
         uresp[ukey] = value
 
     if 'location' in uresp:
-        uresp['location'] = absolute_location(url, uresp['location'])
+        uresp['location'] = urljoin(url, uresp['location'])
 
     # Default content_encoding to try
     if isinstance(content, binary_type):
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/redirect-none.yml b/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/redirect-none.yml
index c9a5cd240e8..75f1cb7d9d3 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/redirect-none.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/redirect-none.yml
@@ -294,3 +294,24 @@
     - http_308_post.redirected == false
     - http_308_post.status == 308
     - http_308_post.url == 'https://' + httpbin_host + '/redirect-to?status_code=308&url=https://' + httpbin_host + '/anything'
+
+- name: Test HTTP return value for location using relative redirects
+  uri:
+    url: https://{{ httpbin_host }}/redirect-to?url={{ item }}
+    status_code: 302
+    follow_redirects: none
+  register: http_302
+  loop:
+    - "/anything?foo=bar"
+    - "status/302"
+    - "./status/302"
+    - "/status/302"
+    - "//{{ httpbin_host }}/status/302"
+    - "https:status/302"
+
+- assert:
+    that:
+      - item.location == ('https://' + httpbin_host + ((idx == 0) | ternary('/anything?foo=bar', '/status/302')))
+  loop: "{{ http_302.results }}"
+  loop_control:
+    index_var: idx
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/redirect-safe.yml b/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/redirect-safe.yml
index ae16e27ff64..f55bc02d786 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/redirect-safe.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/uri/tasks/redirect-safe.yml
@@ -272,3 +272,27 @@
     - http_308_post.redirected == false
     - http_308_post.status == 308
     - http_308_post.url == 'https://' + httpbin_host + '/redirect-to?status_code=308&url=https://' + httpbin_host + '/anything'
+
+
+- name: Test HTTP using HEAD with relative path in redirection
+  uri:
+    url: https://{{ httpbin_host }}/redirect-to?status_code={{ item }}&url=/anything?foo=bar
+    follow_redirects: safe
+    return_content: yes
+    method: HEAD
+  register: http_head
+  loop:
+    - '301'
+    - '302'
+    - '303'
+    - '307'
+    - '308'
+
+- assert:
+    that:
+    - item.changed is false
+    - item.json is not defined
+    - item.redirected
+    - item.status == 200
+    - item.url == 'https://' + httpbin_host + '/anything?foo=bar'
+  loop: "{{ http_head.results }}"