405 method not allowed Web API

Question

This error is very common, and I tried all of the solutions and non of them worked. I have disabled WebDAV publishing in control panel and added this to my web config file:<

Answer 1

You are POSTing from the client:

await client.PostAsJsonAsync("api/products", product);

not PUTing.

Your Web API method accepts only PUT requests.

So:

await client.PutAsJsonAsync("api/products", product);