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

I was having exactly the same problem. I looked for two hours what was wrong with no luck until I realize my POST method was private instead of public .

Funny now seeing that error message is kind of generic. Hope it helps!