How can I get php to return 500 upon encountering a fatal exception?

Question

PHP fatal errors come back as status code 200 to the HTTP client. How can I make it return a status code 500 (Internal server error)?

Answer 1

I have used "set_exception_handler" to handle uncaught exceptions.

function handleException($ex) {
      error_log("Uncaught exception class=" . get_class($ex) . " message=" . $ex->getMessage() . " line=" . $ex->getLine());
      ob_end_clean(); # try to purge content sent so far
      header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error');
      echo 'Internal error';
    }

set_exception_handler('handleException');