I believe on some servers these methods are disabled by default for security reasons. I believe you have to enabled them to use them.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Scott Bigelow <eph...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am having an issue with Apache/2.2.22 on Ubuntu 12.04, migrating service > from an older system, Apache/2.2.3 on CentOS. We make use of PHP to serve > RESTful requests, but I do not believe this is a PHP issue, since the issue > is present even when not calling a PHP script. > > On the old server, it will accept any HTTP Method (specifically, PUT and > DELETE are desired). > > On the new server, I cannot get it to recognize any method other than GET, > POST, OPTIONS, and HEADER. Here is my very simple block: > > <Directory "/var/www"> > Options FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride None > Order allow,deny > allow from all > <Limit DELETE GET> > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </Limit> > </Directory> > > Even with this stanza, "curl -X DELETE URL" returns a "405 Method not > allowed". When I change "Allow from all" to "Deny from all" in the <Limit>, > it returns a 403 instead, so I know the block is effective for this request. > Is there some other part of Apache which is preventing the DELETE method? > Thanks for taking the time to read through my issue, > -Scott -- ---------------------------------------------- "May the Source be with you." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
