PHP header("Location: ..."); Problem

JerryHobby

Please review the following code.

<html><head>
<?php
header("Location: http://www.mysite.com/index.php");
exit;
?>
</head>
<body>Hello World</body>
</html>

Simple, eh? But it does NOT work on my server. I telnet'd to the server:80 and here is the output:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 03:43:51 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_log_bytes/0.3 mod_bwlimited/1.0 PHP/4.2.3 Fronh
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.2.3
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

<html><head>
<br />
<b>Warning</b>: Cannot add header information - headers alre>

It appears to me that the problem lies with the <br />. I can't see how I can correct that with my code. If I can, please advise. If the problem is with the Apache server config, let me know what to tell my hosting company.

I appreciate any assistance with this problem.

Thanks!
Jerry

Mordecai

Headers need to be sent before ANY other information.

<html><head> <- this is where your problem lies.

When writing a "Location:", you want that to be the only thing sent to the user. Information can be sent afterwards, but they won't get it (seeing as they aren't going to be on your page anymore).

JerryHobby

Finally ... I didn't realize that I couldn't even have the <HTML><HEAD> tags. I took those out and started the page with <?php and the redirect worked.

Thanks for the fast response. I spent hours on this stupid problem. I won't forget this solution anytime soon. :-)

Jerry

Daggeth

Ya, that made me mad too! Another thing to be cautious of: When you include a file. If it has a blank line at the end after the "?>", and then you send a header, you will get the same error!

ejrhodes

Originally posted by Daggeth
Ya, that made me mad too! Another thing to be cautious of: When you include a file. If it has a blank line at the end after the "?>", and then you send a header, you will get the same error!

I ran into that nasty problem myself. That one sucks!!!!