How can I create an error 404 in PHP

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My  htaccess redirects all requests to  word here to  page php name word here  The PHP script then checks if the requested page is in its array of pages   If not  how can I simulate an error 404  I tried this  but it didn t result in my 404 page configured via ErrorDocument in the  htaccess showing up   header   SERVER  SERVER PROTOCOL     404 Not Found      Am I right in thinking that it s wrong to redirect to my error 404 page

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What you re doing will work  and the browser will receive a 404 code  What it won t do is display the  not found  page that you might be expecting  e g    Not Found  The requested URL  test php was not found on this server   That s because the web server doesn t send that page when PHP returns a 404 code  at least Apache doesn t   PHP is responsible for sending all its own output  So if you want a similar page  you ll have to send the HTML yourself  e g     lt  php header   SERVER  SERVER PROTOCOL     404 Not Found   true  404   include  notFound php      gt    You could configure Apache to use the same page for its own 404 messages  by putting this in httpd conf   ErrorDocument 404  notFound php

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Try this    lt  php header  HTTP 1 0 404 Not Found      gt

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In the Drupal or Wordpress CMS  and likely others   if you are trying to make some custom php code appear not to exist  unless some condition is met   the following works well by making the CMS s 404 handler take over    lt  php   if condition       do stuff      else       include  index php          gt

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Create custom error pages through  htaccess file  1  404 - page not found   RewriteEngine On  ErrorDocument 404  404 html   2  500 - Internal Server Error  RewriteEngine On ErrorDocument 500  500 html   3  403 - Forbidden  RewriteEngine On ErrorDocument 403  403 html   4  400 - Bad request  RewriteEngine On ErrorDocument 400  400 html   5  401 - Authorization Required  RewriteEngine On ErrorDocument 401  401 html   You can also redirect all error to single page  like  RewriteEngine On ErrorDocument 404  404 html ErrorDocument 500  404 html ErrorDocument 403  404 html ErrorDocument 400  404 html ErrorDocument 401  401 html

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The up-to-date answer  as of PHP 5 4 or newer  for generating 404 pages is to use http response code    lt  php http response code 404   include  my 404 php       provide your own HTML for the error page die      die   is not strictly necessary  but it makes sure that you don t continue the normal execution

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try putting    ErrorDocument 404   root directory   error file     in  htaccess file   Do this for any error but substitute 404 for your error

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Did you remember to die   after sending the header   The 404 header doesn t automatically stop processing  so it may appear not to have done anything if there is further processing happening   It s not good to REDIRECT to your 404 page  but you can INCLUDE the content from it with no problem   That way  you have a page that properly sends a 404 status from the correct URL  but it also has your  what are you looking for   page for the human reader

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Immediately after that line try closing the response using exit or die    header   SERVER  SERVER PROTOCOL     404 Not Found    exit    or  header   SERVER  SERVER PROTOCOL     404 Not Found    die

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try this once    wp query- gt set 404    status header 404   get template part  404

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