Topic: Apache 2.2.3 wrong headers?

[Uli]

Hello,

Im running apache 2.2.3 with php 5.1.5 on winxp. I configured the httpd.conf so the 404 error return a 404 header using the following php script :
<?php
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
?>
It still return 200 OK .. what am i doing wrong?

[James Blond]

What did you change in your httpd.conf?

ErrorDocument 404 "your.php" ?

Than you don't have to set the 404 header by the script. Apache will do it itself!

the ErrorDocument 404 is only a chance to make that page look nicer or give you the chance to run a script that i.e. sends you an email that the page is missing

[Uli]

Yes i did change the httpd.conf like you said. But if i check, it doesn't return the right header... Google says it returns 200 OK instead of 404... even if i force it in php..

[James Blond]

[Uli]

It was already changed... and already restarted before i post.
Now if you add your site into google, you can admin it sort of using
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/siteoverview?hl=en
To verify your site you need to create and upload a html page as google wants it and then it check the header of your 404 page ..
In my case it always return 200 OK (probably cause the 404 page exists) and i can't use the meta tags verification system because my domain forwarding won't allow me to add custom tags with no masking.
So my problem remains, apache 2.2.3 returns a status of 200 instead of 404 for the 404 error page... even if it displays the 404 page, i'm talking about HEADERS here, not pages..

[Uli]

anyone????

my 404.php has that header :
<?php
header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
?>

my ht.acl has :
ErrorDocument 404 /error/404.php

my httpd.conf has :
ErrorDocument 404 /error/404.php

so what's wrong?????

[Steffen]

Try to test with http://web-sniffer.net/

And see what that says.

Steffen

[Uli]

Heres the detail when i point to my 404 page...

Connect to 204.xx.xxx.xx on port 80 ... ok
GET /error/404.php HTTP/1.1[CRLF]
Connection: close[CRLF]
Accept-Encoding: gzip[CRLF]
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5[CRLF]
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5[CRLF]
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7[CRLF]
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7 Web-Sniffer/1.0.24[CRLF]
Referer: http://web-sniffer.net/[CRLF]

It says the header returns:
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK

if i point to a non existing page it returns:
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily

i don't undestand..

[Steffen]

Indeed all you done, looks ok.

Who knows, try to use the full path:

ErrorDocument 404 x:/xxx/error/404.php

and who knows, between single quotes:

header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found');


Steffen

[Uli]

i've tried everything, i still get wrong headers... dunno what to do....

[Jorge]

You don't need to privide a header for the ErrorDocuments you set in apache. Apache will add the correct one (404, 500, 302...)

You only need to do that in php for example if the page exist but because of a wrong input the usermade you can return a 404 so search engines etc wo'nt index it.

[Uli]

if i don't add anything, it acts the same... the header of the 404 page return 200 ok....

[James Blond]

[Uli]

i call a php page cause i wanted to force the header to return 404...
If i call a regular 404 page, it returns 200 ok...

[alangiv]

U;i, I've been doing the same thing (trying to change headers). I can't understand why no one understands the problem (i.e that you want to raise an HTTP error). Apache seems to return 200 OK no matter what. Guess its an apache thing.

[tdonovan]

I'm not seeing the same results with Apache 2.2.3 and PHP 5.1.6 on Windows 2000.

I have this directive in httpd.conf:

ErrorDocument 404 /fnf.php

If I request a nonexistent page, the response status is 404 as expected: