How to enable and use HTTP PUT and DELETE with Apache2 and PHP

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It should be so simple  I ve followed every tutorial and forum I could find  yet I can t get it to work  I simply want to build a RESTful API in PHP on Apache2   In my VirtualHost directive I say    lt Directory   gt      AllowOverride All      lt Limit GET HEAD POST PUT DELETE OPTIONS gt          Order Allow Deny         Allow from all      lt  Limit gt   lt  Directory gt    Yet every PUT request I make to the server  I get 405 method not supported   Someone advocated using the Script directive  but since I use mod php  as opposed to CGI  I don t see why that would work   People mention using WebDAV  but to me that seems like overkill  After all  I don t need DAV locking  a DAV filesystem  etc  All I want to do is pass the request on to a PHP script and handle everything myself  I only want to enable PUT and DELETE for the clean semantics

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The technical limitations with using PUT and DELETE requests does not lie with PHP or Apache2; it is instead on the burden of the browser to sent those types of requests.

Simply putting <form action="" method="PUT"> will not work because there are no browsers that support that method (and they would simply default to GET, treating PUT the same as it would treat gibberish like FDSFGS). Sadly those HTTP verbs are limited to the realm of non-desktop application browsers (ie: web service consumers).

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On linux   etc apache2 mods-enabled php5 conf dans php5 load  exists  If not  enables this modules  may require to sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5

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IIRC the purpose of the form method attribute was to define different transport methods  Consequently  HTML 5 2 only defines GET  POST  and DIALOG methods for transport and dialog action  not how the server should process the data   Ruby-on-rails solves this problem by using POST GET for everything and adding a hidden form variable that defines the actual ReST method  This approach is more clumsy and error-prone  but does remove the burden from both the HTML standard and browser developers   The form method was defined before ReST  so you cannot define ReST in HTML  even after enabling Apache and PHP because the browsers conform to HTML and therefore default to GET POST for all non-HTML defined values  That means  when you send a form to the browser with a PUT method  the browser changes that to GET and uses that instead  The hidden variable  however  passes through everything unchanged  so you can use that to customise your form handling process   Hope that helps

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You can just post the file name to delete to delete php on the server  which can easily unlink   the file

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AllowOverride AuthConfig   try this  Authentication may be the problem  I was working with a CGI script written in C    and faced some authentication issues when passed DELETE  The above solution helped me  It may help in your case too     Also even if you don t get the solution for your problem of PUT and DELETE  do not stop working rather use  CORS   It is a google chrome app  which will help you bypass the problem  but remember it is a temporary solution  so that your work or experiments doesn t remain freeze for long  Obviously  you cannot ask your client to have  CORS  enabled to run your solution  as it may compromise systems security

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You don t need to configure anything  Just make sure that the requests map to your PHP file and use requests with path info  For example  if you have in the root a file named handler php with this content    lt  php  var dump   SERVER  REQUEST METHOD     var dump   SERVER  REQUEST URI     var dump   SERVER  PATH INFO      if    stream   fopen  php   input    r        FALSE      var dump stream get contents  stream      The following HTTP request would work   Established connection with 127 0 0 1 on port 81 PUT  handler php bla foo HTTP 1 1 Host  localhost 81 Content-length  5    boo HTTP 1 1 200 OK Date  Sat  29 May 2010 16 00 20 GMT Server  Apache 2 2 13  Win32  PHP 5 3 0 X-Powered-By  PHP 5 3 0 Content-Length  89 Content-Type  text html    string 3   PUT  string 20    handler php bla foo  string 8    bla foo  string 5   boo   Connection closed remotely    You can hide the  php  extension with MultiViews or you can make URLs completely logical with mod rewrite   See also the documentation for the AcceptPathInfo directive and this question on how to make PHP not parse POST data when enctype is multipart form-data

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