lost and found ( for me ? ): PHP5.3 : configure HTTP response code you would like to send

small tips.

# tail -1 /etc/lsb-release ;uname -ri

DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS"

3.2.0-54-virtual x86_64

# apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5

# a2enmod php5

# service apache2 restart

# dpkg -l php5 | tail -1

ii php5 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.8 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (metapackage)

In case of PHP5.3, you can configure HTTP response code like this:

# cat /var/www/a.php

<?php

header('X-PHP-Response-Code: 503', true, 503);

sleep(1);

echo date('h:i:s') . "\n";

# wget http://127.0.0.1/a.php -O -

--2013-10-08 04:17:36-- http://127.0.0.1/a.php

Connecting to 127.0.0.1:80... connected.

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

In case of PHP5.4 or later, you can configure like this:

http_response_code(404);

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