ASP.NET Web Api: The requested resource does not support http method 'GET'

Question

I\'ve got the following action on an ApiController:

public string Something()
{
    return \"value\";
}

And I\'ve configured my routes as f

Answer 1

Although this isn't an answer to the OP, I had the exact same error from a completely different root cause; so in case this helps anybody else...

The problem for me was an incorrectly named method parameter which caused WebAPI to route the request unexpectedly. I have the following methods in my ProgrammesController:

[HttpGet]
public Programme GetProgrammeById(int id)
{
    ...
}

[HttpDelete]
public bool DeleteProgramme(int programmeId)
{
    ...
}

DELETE requests to .../api/programmes/3 were not getting routed to DeleteProgramme as I expected, but to GetProgrammeById, because DeleteProgramme didn't have a parameter name of id. GetProgrammeById was then of course rejecting the DELETE as it is marked as only accepting GETs.

So the fix was simple:

[HttpDelete]
public bool DeleteProgramme(int id)
{
    ...
}

And all is well. Silly mistake really but hard to debug.