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

We had a similar issue. We were trying to GET from:

[RoutePrefix("api/car")]
public class CarController: ApiController{

    [HTTPGet]
    [Route("")]
    public virtual async Task GetAll(){

    }

}

So we would .GET("/api/car") and this would throw a 405 error.

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The Fix:

The CarController.cs file was in the directory /api/car so when we were requesting this api endpoint, IIS would send back an error because it looked like we were trying to access a virtual directory that we were not allowed to.

Option 1: change / rename the directory the controller is in
Option 2: change the route prefix to something that doesn't match the virtual directory.