Header not reloading

Question

I need help figuring this out. I have a code that later on changes the header location like this:

header('Location: http://www.matrixgamingns.com/changepassword.php?success');

And it's not working. When i used that line i localhost it was ok and it worked like it should. And it looked like this:

header('Location: changepassword.php?success');

And now when it's online it doesn't want to reload or redirect the page. Luckily i have turned error reporting ON and this is what i get:

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /hermes/bosweb/web039/b397/ipg.matrixgamingnscom/public_html/recover.php:7) in /hermes/bosweb/web039/b397/ipg.matrixgamingnscom/public_html/recover.php on line 44

That's ok i see what's wrong... But When i go to the error that line is my php include. Like this:

<?php include 'php/includes/headstart.php'; ?>

And the craziest part is that in that include i have nothnig that can redirect like the error states. Included php:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

    <head>

        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" />
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/reset.css" type="text/css" />
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html" charset="UTF-8">
        <meta name="language" content="serbian">
        <script src="js/jquery.js"></script>
        <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico" />

PHP code where the file is included:

<?php 
include 'php/db/connection.php';
include 'php/db/init.php'; 
protect_page();
?>

    <?php include 'php/includes/headstart.php'; ?>



        <title>Matrix Gaming</title>
        <meta name="description" content="Matrix Gaming Internet Cafe je mesto gde mozete doci da se druzite sa prijateljima ili se mozda odlucite da se suprotstavite nekome u nekoj od mnogobrojnih igrica
        u nasoj ponudi">



<?php include 'php/includes/headend.php'; ?>

If anyone can help me, i would apreciate it very much!

Possible duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8028957/headers-already-sent-by-php — haim770, Sep 01 '13 at 12:01
Can you show your PHP code? Where did you put your `header`? — putvande, Sep 01 '13 at 12:01
You cannot send headers when there is already output, like the error sais. Your include starts writing html. — jdepypere, Sep 01 '13 at 12:01
oh and btw header is not redirecting anything when there are errors()<-my function. I made an if statment sayinf that if the errors and post are valid then go trough the code — Vladimir, Sep 01 '13 at 12:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 01 '13 at 12:01

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This happens because you have sent some output to the browser before calling your header function. Check for whitespaces in your code that can potentially send content to the browser causing all the headers to be sent.

answered Sep 01 '13 at 12:01

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 01 '13 at 12:02

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Its likely that you output html before doing the header() call. This is not ok. Headers needs to be sent before any output. If no html is output before, it might be a whitespace or similar that is the issue.

answered Sep 01 '13 at 12:02

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 01 '13 at 12:04

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Remember that the header() function cannot be used after any output was sent! Your inclusion is HTML, meaning it's sending that as output to the browser; header()cannot be used because something was already output.

answered Sep 01 '13 at 12:04

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how can i fix that and still retain the header() in the code ? – Vladimir Sep 01 '13 at 12:07
By adding the `include` after the calls to `header()`. Remember that inclusions don't need to be at the very beginning. – aaaaaa123456789 Sep 01 '13 at 12:14

Header not reloading

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