HTTP Error 405 (Method Not Allowed)

One thing that will make visitors lose trust in your brand is if they come across error pages on your website.

One such error page is 405 Method Not Allowed Errors.

So, you need to fix these errors fast so visitors don’t lose trust in your brand.

Unfortunately, these errors tell you what happened to your website but don’t tell you why.

That’s exactly what we will learn in this article:

• What causes 405 Method Not Allowed Errors
• How to fix them

Let’s dive right in.

405 method not allowed

A 405 Method Not Allowed Error shows up when:

• A web browser tries to access your web page
• Your web server receives and recognises it’s HTTP method
• But your server rejects it’s HTTP method

Then:

• The web browser can’t access the requested web page

And:

• Your website shows your visitors an error web page with the HTTP response status code

But, there are three effective ways to fix 405 Method Not Allowed Errors:

Fix 405 Method Not Allowed Errors

Find bugs in your website’s code

Your web servers can’t deal with content delivery network requests when you have errors in your website’s code.

To fix this:

• Go through your code
• Find bugs

Or:

• Copy your code into a development machine

A development machine process:

• Debugs your 405 Method Not Allowed Error
• Shows you where the error occurred

Go through your server-side logs

You get two types of server-side logs:

• Applications logs
• Server logs

Application logs show your website’s history, like:

• Visitor requested web pages
• The servers your website connected to

Server logs show your server’s hardware information, like:

• Health details
• Status details

So, go through both server-side logs to find your server or website information.

Check server configuration files

Look at your web server’s configurations files, where you will find:

• Instructions to fix unintentional redirects like your 405 Method Not Allowed Error