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

Question

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.

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Answer 1

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

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).