Apache/PHP returns HTTP Status Code 200 on error pages

Question

I\'m running PHP 5.4 on CentOS 7 and when there is a php file that throws an error (either an exception, or a syntax error) it returns an HTTP 200 status code instead of 500.

Answer 1

Note that this may sometimes be down to the CustomLog format in apache. For example %>s ("the final status") can (correctly) yield a 403 in the access log whereas just %s may record a 200 even when the status code of the response was something else.