Headers

i just installed apache 1.3.9 with php4 and was wondering how i can make it so that header function works... Well like the following gives me a server misconfiguration error:

header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Top 10 Login"');
header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
printf('Authorization required...');

can anyone PLEASE tell me where i can enable or tweak apahce so that the previous code would work..

also.. how i can setup custom error pages like 500 and stuff

thanks in advance!
Cisk
devcisk@ev1.net

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ahh, could somebody answer this question please. I have the same problem URL :

I'm getting 500 errors (Internal Server Errors), when i'm working with headers.

i suppose it's something in the apache conf file, that has to be turned off/on, but i'm not sure what.

Assuming your server allows you to override "FileInfo" (you probably can if you are allowed to use .htaccess), you can then put this line in your .htaccess file:
ErrorDocument 500 /500.html

Place this 500.html and .htaccess files in your root directory in this case.

Go to http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#errordocument to find out more..

what i mean is when i, for example, use this script (copied from php.net) on my localhost

<?
if (!isset($PHP_AUTH_USER)) {

// If empty, send header causing dialog box to appear
header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My Private Stuff"');
header('HTTP/1.0 401 "Unauthorized"');

echo 'Authorization Required.';
exit;
}

// If not empty, display values for variables

else {

echo "
<P>You have entered this username: $PHP_AUTH_USER<br>
You have entered this password: $PHP_AUTH_PW<br>
The authorization type is: $PHP_AUTH_TYPE</p>
";

}

?>


i get an 500 error.
in my error.log i then find the following line:


[Thu Apr 20 22:34:02 2000] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] malformed header from script. Bad header=HTTP/1.0 401 "Unauthorized": c:/php/php.exe


What's going on here?

Cisk,
Just wondering what platform you had installed apache and PHP under, becuase I had a similar problem. The header function dosen't seem to work the way that you have it written out under the windows environment, but I've found a statement that seems to work instead ...


Header ( "WWW-authenticate: basic realm=Restricted Area");

Header ( "Status: 401 Unauthorized");

echo "<meta http-equiv="refresh"
content="0;url=index.php">";

exit;


I really don't know about setting up custom error pages though ...

darkray77
voltron@notes.udayton.edu


<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by devCisk:
i just installed apache 1.3.9 with php4 and was wondering how i can make it so that header function works... Well like the following gives me a server misconfiguration error:

header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Top 10 Login"');
header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
printf('Authorization required...');

can anyone PLEASE URL tell me where i can enable or tweak apahce so that the previous code would work..

also.. how i can setup custom error pages like 500 and stuff

thanks in advance!
Cisk
devcisk@ev1.net

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