PHP header Location Force URL change in address bar

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I m currently working on a mobile site with authentication using PHP sessions with a database  I have a login page with a form that goes to server login php on submit  The php file then creates some session data  store in   SESSION   and redirects the user back to the index page   header  location       index php      The new web page  index php  loads correctly  however  when the header redirects the page  the URL at the address bar is not changed  it stays at  http   localhost php server server login php  instead of http   localhost index php and thus all my other resources that makes use of relative pathing could not be loaded  It s as if the web page still thinks that it resides at  php server instead of     Strangely  my other use of header  location        at logout php works and redirects the page successfully with a URL change   I ve made sure that there are no outputs in my  server login php  before the header redirect  above it are just mysql calls to check  and I ve used ob start   and ob end flush   too   Are there any methods of forcing the URL on the address bar to change  and thus hopefully fix the relative path problem   Or am I doing something wrong   P S  I am using jQuery Mobile   EDIT  Here s my code for the redirection that doesn t change the URL      some other stuff not shown    sql    SELECT   FROM  user table WHERE email     myemail  AND password     mypassword     login result   mysql query  sql   connection     count   mysql num rows  login result    if   count    1            Successfully verified login information      session start         if   isset   SESSION  is logged in                 SESSION  is logged in     1             if   isset   SESSION  email                 SESSION  email      myemail            if   isset   SESSION  password                 SESSION  password      mypassword                Register user s name and ID     if    isset   SESSION  name      amp  amp    isset   SESSION  user id                  row   mysql fetch assoc  login result             SESSION  name      row  name              SESSION  user id      row  user id               header  Location  http   localhost 8080 meet2eat index php       else          Not logged in  Redirect back to login page     header  Location  http   localhost 8080 meet2eat php login php err 1

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Do not use any white space  I had the same issue  Then I removed white space like   header  location index php    or header  location index php      Then it worked

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use  header  Location  index php      this work in my site  read more on header   at php documentation

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As  cfphpflex  suggested you can add break  after setting the header   You can also echo something  such as echo  test

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I had the same problem with posting a form  What I did was that turning off the data-ajax

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In your form element add data-ajax  false    I had the same problem using jquery mobile

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Try changing   header  Location   blabla                                                   whitespace    To  header  Location  blabla

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Register user s name and ID  if    isset   SESSION  name      amp  amp    isset   SESSION  user id              row   mysql fetch assoc  login result         SESSION  name      row  name          SESSION  user id      row  user id       header  Location  http   localhost 8080 meet2eat index php      change to      Register user s name and ID  if    isset   SESSION  name      amp  amp    isset   SESSION  user id              row   mysql fetch assoc  login result         SESSION  name      row  name          SESSION  user id      row  user id    header  Location  http   localhost 8080 meet2eat index php

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I got a solution for you  Why dont you rather use Explode if your url is something like  Url-  website com test blog php   StringExplo explode       SERVER  REQUEST URI      HeadTo  StringExplo 0    Index php   Header  Location     HeadTo

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why  all of this  location url      http   localhost 8080 meet2eat index php   you can just use    index php   if the  php files are in the same folder and this is better because if you want to host the files or change the  port you will have no problem reaching this URL

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You are suppose to use it like header Location    index php  if it in another folder

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you may want to put a break  after your location   header  HTTP 1 1 301 Moved Permanently    header  Location        YourArrayName  YourURL       break

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Well  if the server sends a correct redirection header  the browser redirects and therefore  changes the url   It might be a browser issue  then  I don t know if it has anything to do with it  but you should not send a relative url in the location header   HTTP 1 1 requires an absolute URI as argument to    Location  including the scheme  hostname and absolute path  but some clients accept relative URIs     http   php net manual en function header php   and  location  must be capitalized  like   header  Location  http   myhost com mypage php

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Just change home to your liking   home url    http         SERVER  HTTP HOST     dirname   SERVER  PHP SELF        home    header  Location       home url

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Are you sure the page you are redirecting too doesn t have a redirection within that if no session data is found  That could be your problem  Also yes always add whitespace like  Peter O suggested

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