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

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You don’t need to configure anything. Just make sure that the requests map to your PHP file and use requests with path info. For example, if you have in the root a file named handler.php with this content:

<?php

var_dump($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']);
var_dump($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
var_dump($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']);

if (($stream = fopen('php://input', "r")) !== FALSE)
    var_dump(stream_get_contents($stream));

The following HTTP request would work:

Established connection with 127.0.0.1 on port 81
PUT /handler.php/bla/foo HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:81
Content-length: 5
 
boo
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 16:00:20 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.13 (Win32) PHP/5.3.0
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.0
Content-Length: 89
Content-Type: text/html
 
string(3) "PUT"
string(20) "/handler.php/bla/foo"
string(8) "/bla/foo"
string(5) "boo
"
Connection closed remotely.

You can hide the “php” extension with MultiViews or you can make URLs completely logical with mod_rewrite.

See also the documentation for the AcceptPathInfo directive and this question on how to make PHP not parse POST data when enctype is multipart/form-data.

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