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Hello please help me troubleshooting the problem below. I got the 500 Internal Server Error in My WP Site>Dashboard>Appearance>Custom.. Pleaaaaase. Below is the error shows when i check the document on Cpanel>File Manager>home3/faithcr4/public_html/error_log...

[07-Aug-2021 07:15:40 UTC] PHP Warning:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home3/faithcr4/public_html/wp-content/maintenance.php:1) in /home3/faithcr4/public_html/wp-content/maintenance.php on line 3
    [07-Aug-2021 07:15:40 UTC] PHP Warning:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home3/faithcr4/public_html/wp-content/maintenance.php:1) in /home3/faithcr4/public_html/wp-content/maintenance.php on line 4
    [07-Aug-2021 07:15:40 UTC] PHP Warning:  Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home3/faithcr4/public_html/wp-content/maintenance.php:1) in /home3/faithcr4/public_html/wp-content/maintenance.php on line 5

Here is my code in /home3/faithcr4/public_html/wp-content/maintenance.php, I don’t have a deep understanding of coding, so I don’t understand what went wrong in it. I beg the programmers for help. Please tell me what's going wrong and how can I solve the problem. Thanks!

            <?php ob_start();
                header('HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable');
                header('Status: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable');
                header('Retry-After: 3600'); // 1 hour = 3600 seconds
            ?>
            <!DOCTYPE html>
            <html lang="en-US">
                <head>
                    <meta charset="UTF-8" name="viewport" content="width=device-width", intial-scale="1.0">
                    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://bluehost-cdn.com/media/user/bluerock/_bh/main.css">
                    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://bluehost-cdn.com/media/user/bluerock/_bh/wp_dropins.css">
                    <title>Maintenance</title>
                </head>
                <body class="wp-dropin maintenance">
                    <main class="message">
                        <figure class="message__image"></figure>
                        <section class="message__block">
                            <h1 class="message__title">Maintenance Underway</h1>
                            <p class="message__text">This site is having some routine server maintenance. It should take less than a minute. </p>
                        </section>
                    </main>
                    <footer class="resolution">
                        <p>If this is your website and you see this page for more than a few minutes, please <a href="https://my.bluehost.com/hosting/help">contact support</a>. </p>
                    </footer>
                </body>
           </html>

Thanks..!

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This error happens when you spit out PHP headers after any HTML code or white space.

Is this the entire file? No additional php includes or anything else at all?

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Is there a blank line or spaces before the <?php at the top of the file?

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