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Rein
Rein

Reputation: 911

Odd error using PHP header()

I'm getting the following error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/89/11421189/html/notfound.php:2) in /home/content/89/11421189/html/notfound.php on line 4

In my file 'notfound.php', which uses the code below:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<?php//Line 2
ob_start();
header('Location:http://www.website.com/index.php?page=404.php', true, 302);
exit;
?>
<head>
</head>
<html>
</html>

Note that there is NO whitespace before the PHP tag, or AFTER it. No matter where I move it to (even if it's all on the same line), that line is the culprit in the error. What am I doing wrong here?

[EDIT] Note: If I move the PHP to before the DOCTYPE tag, navigating to this file gives me an error 403: forbidden. The location is fine, since I can copy/paste it into the address bar without issues. Can you not pass GET arguments through header()?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 92

Answers (1)

markdwhite
markdwhite

Reputation: 2449

You can't output headers after anything has been output. The DOCTYPE is output before the header().

Upvotes: 6

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