301 redirect returning 302 instead

Having a problem here trying to redirect some old pages.

I've recently noticed using a server header check that my 301 redirects in
PHP are returning 302 instead.

I'm using the following code:

header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header('Location: newurl');
exit();

The header checker is returning this:

#1 Server Response: oldurl
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.4
Location: newurl

Any reason why we're getting a 302 instead of a 301? This is keeping the
pages in Google instead of removing them and using the new location.

BTW, my server is lighttpd.

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Ian Evans
Chairman & Executive Producer
DigitalHit.com

ianevans@digitalhit.com wrote:
> header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
> header('Location: newurl');
> exit();

If you're using PHP 4.3 or later, header() lets you set the response
status code with the third argument. Otherwise, sending a Location
header sets the response status code to 302.

If you're using an old version of PHP, you should try reversing the
order of the header() calls in your example, if you haven't already.

Hope that helps.

Chris

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Chris Shiflett
http://shiflett.org/

Chris,

I just posted this to php-internals in response to someone else, but this
tale of woe shows the problem:

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://...");
exit();

produces a 302.

header("Location: http://...");
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
exit();

produces a 302.

header("Location: http://...",false,301);

produces a 302 and, for good luck,

header("Location: http://...",true,301);

produces a 302.

Everything's producing a 302. So you can see the dilemma.