[SOLVED] Multiple header information in one script..

[Shaun]

Ok, so I want to do something like this

 

<?
header(”Status: 404 Not Found”);
header("location: http://addresshere.com");

?>

 

obviously this is going to cause problems with headers already being sent..

 

so how would I do something like this without having to rely on meta tags to redirect?

 

 

thanks, Shaun

[dingus]

try adding this on the first line

 

ob_start();

[Shaun]

thanks dingus, but it still returns header errors.

[BlueSkyIS]

your code should work. are you sending anything to the browser before the header() calls? is there ANYTHING before the code you posted?

 

if there is nothing before this, it maybe the problem is the back-double-quotes in the first header(). try changing it to this with regular double-quotes.

 

header("Status: 404 Not Found");

[discomatt]

Why not just use Status 404 and then have an htaccess file pointing to http://addresshere.com on 404 errors.

[BlueSkyIS]

browser may not automatically go to apache error page after sending a 404. or you may want a different 404 page for the redirect. i use this code for both:

 

header("Status: 404 Not Found");
header("location: /404.php");
exit;

[discomatt]

I don't understand the purpose of

 

header("Status: 404 Not Found");

 

then.

[BlueSkyIS]

you're telling the browser "Page Not Found" with 404. then you tell the browser where to go with Location. By the time you get to PHP, Apache has already done it's work. Apache won't tell the browser where to go on a 404, so PHP has to do it.

[Shaun]

Thank you bluesky, adding the exit; to the end got it working perfectly