@mike, yup i did submit a bug report and did some further searching. looks like it was an issue with the order of the redirects in the htaccess, moving it to the top resolves the issue.
frederick did respond to my email and indicated that it was an issue with the order on the htaccess as well, but by then i had resolved it, so didn’t need to pursue it further.
have you tried moving your redirect at the beginning of the htaccess?
I’m experiencing the same issue with my site. I just went and turned off caching for my home page under “Page Cache Settings”, and the redirect works fine after that.
But, that kinda sucks because your homepage is your most visited page. So don’t want to turn that option off. 🙂
Any updates on this one?