Re: How to debug "Unknown: Headers already sent"?
| From: | Samuel Rhoades | Date: | Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:15:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How to debug "Unknown: Headers already sent"? | ||
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> On Jan 6, 2022, at 12:13 PM, Jānis Elmeris <janis.elmeris@lv.lv> wrote:
>
> How can I try debugging the "Unknown: Headers already sent. You cannot change the session
> module's ini settings at this time in Unknown on line 0" warning, when PHP is not giving
> any more details except that it happened (no info on what's trying to send the headers or where
> the output had started).
>
> This warning happens from time to time only. (In my case, it happens when I browse a
> Woocommerce store. It has happened in the local dev environment when I click on a product, when I
> click on adding product to the cart, when I click to checkout. But it happens rarely. Mostly, all
> the requests are processed all right, no PHP warnings.)
>
> Almost everything that I found about "headers already sent" on the Internet, refers
> to the cases when the PHP code is written in a way that outputs some content before sending the
> headers, in which case the PHP gives a reference to the PHP code that's in some way related to
> the error. But the "unknown" cases are different.
>
> I found that this error may be caused by repeatedly loading the same PHP extensions, or by some
> PHP extension working incorrectly. For example, "zlib" extension has had such problem when
> executing "ob_gzhandler".
>
> I looked at the PHP configuration and didn't see an extension being loaded more than once.
> Regarding "ob_gzhandler", I found only one place in the Wordpress code using it, and added
> a log there. Then I got a headers already sent warning message, but the "ob_gzhandler" had
> not been used in that request.
>
> So, how could this warning be tracked down? Can I use XDebug somehow to do it?
>
> I'm using PHP 7.4 FPM.
>
> Regards,
> Janis