[Resolved] header: location errors

[leatherback]

Hi,
I have a script/include, called checklging, which I include at my pages, to check wether people are logged in. If not: They are moved to the login page.
Since this package will be moved around a lot, I want to create the paths dynamic (Now there is just document_root included, later it will also be a $path variable: $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].$path."....";

But I cannot get this right. I keep getting a redirect error (So not "Page cannot be found, or parse error!). What am I doing wrong? This is the code of the include:

<?php
session_start() ;

if (!$_SESSION['logged_in']) 
  {
  header("Location: ". $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."public/spectradatabase/routines/userlogin.php"); 
 } 
?>

[stolzyboy]

remember you can't have ANY output, html, whitespace, etc... before a header() function

i notice you have a whole space after your session_start, try cinching that up a line and make sure you have no other whitespace, linebreaks, etc...

[kevinsequeira]

<?php
session_start() ;
if (!$_SESSION['logged_in']) 
  {
  $location = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."public/spectradatabase/routines/userlogin.php";
		// echo $location to see if its valid URL, remember if u echo the header wont work till u comment the echo line again;
		// echo $location;
		header("location:".$location); 
 } 

?> 

reg
kevin

[leatherback]

Hi,

It is not a session problem: I tried

if (!$_SESSION['logged_in'])  

  { 
  echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."public/spectradatabase/routines/userlogin.php";  

 }  

And that wored fine.

J.

[stolzyboy]

did you take my suggestion

[leatherback]

Hi Kevin,

Sorry. Did not help me.

Still gives the error (Popup):

The website http://localhost/public/spectradatabase/routines/insert.php cannot be openen by IE. Error redirecting

The path is correct however..

Any other ideas?

J

[leatherback]

Hi Stolzyboy. Yes I tried your idea, but as expected: No solution. But I already expected that, becaus replcing the redirect with a echo works fine. So it is not a session function problem, I think. (The if works fine, it is a URL replace problem, I think).

Any other suggestions I should try?

J.

[stolzyboy]

i'm not saying it is a session problem, if you read my post, you are getting header errors, right, well is it saying can't output headers already sent, if so read my post more carefully

[leatherback]

Hi Stolzyboy,

Nope.. I am not getting header problems (Not all problems are about sessions started after the headers have been formed, read my post more carefully too 😃 ). It is about a redirect not being performed.
But I know the problem now. There was an error, not so much in the path, as in the location of the files.. I had saved the userlogin.php in the root for testing, and renamed the original to userlogin.phps instead. add a glass of whine, and you end up with STUPID <:mad:🙁 :mad: )mistakes.

It works fine now with Kevins' suggestion.

Thanks guys!

J.