nginx returns 405 (Method Not Allowed) for PUT or DELETE

Question

I am using nginx to serve static pages but to pass requests to an API on to a Tornado application, which I would like to handle GET, POST, PUT and DELETE requests.

GET and POST requests are fine, but PUT and DELETE requests are rejected with "405: Method Not Allowed"

This question asks much the same: How do I allow a PUT file request on Nginx server? but the answer doesn't solve my issue, which makes me think it's related to my use of proxy_pass in my setup.

Here's my nginx server config:

upstream TornadoAPI {
        server 127.0.0.1:8000;
}

server {
        listen 80;
        listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index index.html index.htm;

        # Make site accessible from http://localhost/
        server_name localhost;

        location /<<static url>>/ {
                root /var/www;
                index index.html;
                # First attempt to serve request as file, then
                # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
                # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
                # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
        }

        location /<<API url>>/ {
                dav_methods PUT DELETE;
                dav_access all:r;
                proxy_pass http://TornadoAPI/api/;
        }
}

I have attempted to use the HttpDavModule directives (though I don't think my application qualifies as HttpDav - I have no intention on letting users write files) without luck. I have confirmed the module's presence by inspecting nginx -V.

Here's an example output from the nginx access.log:

<<IP address>> - - [06/Mar/2014:16:29:57 +0000] "PUT /<<API url>>/<<resource>> HTTP/1.1" 405 87 "<<ngix server root url>>" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/33.0.1750.146 Safari/537.36"

Can someone suggest what else I can do to accept the PUT and DELETE methods?

Answer 1

You can add this sentence in your configuration file

dav_methods PUT DELETE MKCOL COPY MOVE;

Specific detailed reference nginx document http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_dav_module.html