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

Standard PHP configuration does return 500 when error occurs! Just make sure that your display_errors = off. You can simulate it with:

ini_set('display_errors', 0); 
noFunction();

On production display_errors directive is off by default.