Using header() with CGI

[zxcv]

Hello,

I created this topic in the afternoon, but for some reason, it disappeared.  Here it is again.
I'm able to use header() for redirection with a regular PHP script.  In order to interact with a database, I need to use PHP as CGI, but header() does not work with PHP as CGI.  Here's some code:
[code]
#!/usr/pkg/bin/php

<?php
header("Location: http://www.yahoo.com/");

?>
[/code]
Nothing is outputted.  The newline after the shebang is required, and I thought that would cause problems, so I put calls to ob_start() and ob_end_clean() before header(), but I get the same results.  Any ideas?

Thanks.

[btherl]

Why is the newline required?  The simplest way to fix this is to remove the newline.

[zxcv]

I don't know why but it's required.  My scripts used to not have a newline after the shebang, but when the sysadmin installed a new version of PHP, the CGI scripts stopped working; I would get error 500, internal service error.  He said to add a newline to prevent this from happening, but now I noticed that CGI stopped working with header(); this used to work before.
The server is running PHP 5.1.2 and Apache 2.0.59.

[mainewoods]

there is a line in php.ini that should be set this way for the redirect:
[code]cgi.force_redirect=0[/code]

[zxcv]

[code]
; cgi.force_redirect is necessary to provide security running PHP as a CGI under
; most web servers.  Left undefined, PHP turns this on by default.  You can
; turn it off here AT YOUR OWN RISK
; **You CAN safely turn this off for IIS, in fact, you MUST.**
; cgi.force_redirect = 1
[/code]
The sysadmin is overly concerned about security, so I don't know how he will react to this.  I'll ask him.
Thanks.