header HTTP 1 0 404 Not Found not doing anything

Question

I have a 404 php file in my site s main directory and I was using header  Location  404 php    for a while until someone said that you should use header  HTTP 1 0 404 Not Found    instead  So I replaced it with that and then added  ErrorDocument 404  404 php to my apache config file and restarted the server but it doesn t work   I tried different variations including ErrorDocument 404 404 php and ErrorDocument 404 mywebite 404 php but to no avail   What I mean by doesn t work is that earlier when using header  Location  404 php    it would redirect to the 404 php file but when I replace it with header  HTTP 1 0 404 Not Found    it seems to just skip over the line and not do anything  It most certainly is not redirecting  The reason I am calling for the redirect is because if a   GET header value is not recognized the page should 404

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No  it probably is actually working  It s just not readily visible  Instead of just using the header call  try doing that  then including 404 php  and then calling die   You can test the fact that the HTTP 1 0 404 Not Found works by creating a PHP file named  say  test php with this content    lt  php  header  HTTP 1 0 404 Not Found    echo  PHP continues  n   die    echo  Not after a die  however  n     Then viewing the result with curl -D  dev stdout reveals   HTTP 1 0 404 Not Found Date  Mon  04 Apr 2011 03 39 06 GMT Server  Apache X-Powered-By  PHP 5 3 2 Content-Length  14 Connection  close Content-Type  text html  PHP continues

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Another reason may be if you add any html tag before this redirect  Look carefully  you may left DOCTYPE or any html comment before this line

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You could try specifying an HTTP response code using an optional parameter   header  HTTP 1 0 404 Not Found   true  404

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i think this will help you  content of  htaccess  ErrorDocument 404  error php ErrorDocument 400  error php ErrorDocument 401  error php ErrorDocument 403  error php ErrorDocument 405  error php ErrorDocument 406  error php ErrorDocument 409  error php ErrorDocument 413  error php ErrorDocument 414  error php ErrorDocument 500  error php ErrorDocument 501  error php    error php and  htaccess should be put in the same directory  in this case

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After writing   header  HTTP 1 0 404 Not Found      add one more header for any inexisting page on your site  It works  for sure   header  Location  http   yoursite nowhere    die

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For PHP    5 4 you can use a simpler function like this   http response code 404   PHP Documentation

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Use these codes for 404 not found   if strstr   SERVER  REQUEST URI    index php       header  HTTP 1 0 404 Not Found      readfile  404missing html      exit        Here 404missing html is your Not found design page   it can be  html or  php

[php] header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found'); not doing anything

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