301 or 302 Redirection With PHP

Question

I\'m considering using the following code during a website launch phase to show users a down for maintenance page while showing me the rest of the site.

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Answer 1

Did you check what header you're getting? Because you should be getting a 302 with above.

From the manual: http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php

The second special case is the "Location:" header. Not only does it send this header back to the browser, but it also returns a REDIRECT (302) status code to the browser unless the 201 or a 3xx status code has already been set.