diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 754e1f502..48bd2fc65 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -110,6 +110,11 @@ Fixed bugs:
    to the toString invocation already.
    Bugzilla Report 49588.
 
+ * <apply> in parallel mode didn't work together with a nested
+   <redirector> if maxparallel was <= 0 (the default) or no source
+   files matched.
+   Bugzilla Report 49594.
+
 Other changes:
 --------------
 
diff --git a/docs/manual/Tasks/apply.html b/docs/manual/Tasks/apply.html
index b6df73260..ca4d8d58e 100644
--- a/docs/manual/Tasks/apply.html
+++ b/docs/manual/Tasks/apply.html
@@ -391,6 +391,9 @@ file mapping will take place with each iteration.  This grants the
 user the capacity to receive input from, and send output to, different
 files for each sourcefile.
 </p>
+<p>In <i>parallel</i>-mode the redirector will be reset for each batch
+  of executions (with <i>maxparallel</i> &gt; 0) and null will be used
+  a source file just like it is in the case of <code>exec</code>.</p>
 <h3>Examples</h3>
 <blockquote><pre>
 &lt;apply executable=&quot;ls&quot;&gt;
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecuteOn.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecuteOn.java
index 56d596397..b8f0c24f9 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecuteOn.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecuteOn.java
@@ -708,6 +708,11 @@ public class ExecuteOn extends ExecTask {
             String[] command = getCommandline(s, b);
             log(Commandline.describeCommand(command), Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
             exe.setCommandline(command);
+            if (redirectorElement != null) {
+                setupRedirector();
+                redirectorElement.configure(redirector, null);
+                exe.setStreamHandler(redirector.createHandler());
+            }
             runExecute(exe);
         } else {
             int stillToDo = fileNames.size();
diff --git a/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/exec/apply-test.xml b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/exec/apply-test.xml
index 02273ce8a..1b5a661a3 100644
--- a/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/exec/apply-test.xml
+++ b/src/tests/antunit/taskdefs/exec/apply-test.xml
@@ -756,4 +756,37 @@
     <au:assertLogContains text="${z}.bar,x out" />
   </target>
 
+  <target name="testRedirectorWithParallel" if="test.can.run" depends="xyz">
+    <apply executable="sh" dest="${input}" parallel="true" addsourcefile="yes">
+      <arg value="parrot.sh" />
+      <targetfile/>
+      <fileset refid="xyz" />
+      <globmapper from="*" to="*.bar"/>
+      <redirector output="${output}/all_out.txt" append="yes"/>
+    </apply>
+    <au:assertResourceContains resource="${output}/all_out.txt"
+                               value="x.bar out"/>
+    <au:assertResourceContains resource="${output}/all_out.txt"
+                               value="x.bar err"/>
+    <au:assertResourceContains resource="${output}/all_out.txt"
+                               value="x out"/>
+    <au:assertResourceContains resource="${output}/all_out.txt"
+                               value="x err"/>
+    <au:assertResourceContains resource="${output}/all_out.txt"
+                               value="y.bar out"/>
+    <au:assertResourceContains resource="${output}/all_out.txt"
+                               value="y.bar err"/>
+    <au:assertResourceContains resource="${output}/all_out.txt"
+                               value="y out"/>
+    <au:assertResourceContains resource="${output}/all_out.txt"
+                               value="y err"/>
+    <au:assertResourceContains resource="${output}/all_out.txt"
+                               value="z.bar out"/>
+    <au:assertResourceContains resource="${output}/all_out.txt"
+                               value="z.bar err"/>
+    <au:assertResourceContains resource="${output}/all_out.txt"
+                               value="z out"/>
+    <au:assertResourceContains resource="${output}/all_out.txt"
+                               value="z err"/>
+  </target>
 </project>