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 can also get the 405 error if say your method is expecting a parameter and you are not passing it.

This does NOT work ( 405 error)

HTML View/Javascript

$.ajax({
         url: '/api/News',
         //.....

Web Api:

public HttpResponseMessage GetNews(int id)

Thus if the method signature is like the above then you must do:

HTML View/Javascript

$.ajax({
         url: '/api/News/5',
         //.....