header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found'); not doing anything

Question

I have a 404.php file in my site\'s main directory and I was using header(\'Location: 404.php\'); for a while until someone said that you should use heade

Answer 1

After writing

header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found');

add one more header for any inexisting page on your site. It works, for sure.

header("Location: http://yoursite/nowhere");
die;