How to Solve HTTP Error 405

Question

I'm getting a HTTP Error 405 when trying to post a small form using PHP. Codes are given below. How can I solve this one?

  <div class="quiz-section">
            <form action="quiz.php" method="post">
                #################
            <input type="submit" class="btn blue" name="submitQuiz" value="Submit" />
        </form>
   </div>





<?php
    if (isset($_POST['submitQuiz'])) {
        if(isset($_POST['quest1'])&&isset($_POST['quest2'])&&isset($_POST['quest3']))
        {
            if(($_POST['guestName']!="")&&($_POST['guestEmail']!="")){

                $to      = 'a######@yahoo.com';
                $subject = 'Quiz Answer Submission';
                $message = "Submited by: ".$_POST['guestName']." From email: ".$_POST['guestEmail']." Answers are: ".$_POST['quest1'].", ".$_POST['quest2'].", ".$_POST['quest3'];

                $headers = 'From: j#####@live.in' . "\r\n" .
                    'Reply-To: '.$_POST["guestEmail"] . "\r\n" .
                    'X-Mailer: PHP/' . phpversion();

                mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);
                echo "Thanks for your submission. We successfully received your answers. Stay tuned.";
                //header("Location: index.html#quiz-questions?status=Success");
            }
            else{
                    echo "Please go back and answer all quiz questions";
            }
        }
        else{
                echo "Please fill all the fields and answer to all questions";
                //header("Location: index.html#quiz-questions?status=Error");
        }
    }
?>

The Error message is:

The page cannot be displayed

The page you are looking for cannot be displayed because an invalid method (HTTP verb) was used to attempt access.
Please try the following:

Contact the Web site administrator if you believe that this request should be allowed.
Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
HTTP Error 405 - The HTTP verb used to access this page is not allowed.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

Technical Information (for support personnel)

Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 405.
Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Setting Application Mappings, Securing Your Site with Web Site Permissions, and About Custom Error Messages.

possible duplicate of [405 HTTP Error - PHP POST](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3677751/405-http-error-php-post) — TML, Sep 29 '14 at 00:30
Add space in your `&& isset....` statement, also check file permission — Ahmad, Sep 29 '14 at 00:31

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 29 '14 at 00:32

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I think the most likely explanation is that .php files are unmapped for POST requests in your IIS installation. This guide explains how to map extensions.

answered Sep 29 '14 at 00:32

gandaliter

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This is not helping. Is there anyway to configure the ISS in Godaddy? – user1012181 Sep 29 '14 at 00:59
I think the problem must be something else then. I'd have thought that PHP would either be configured correctly, or not configured at all, in shared hosting. – gandaliter Sep 29 '14 at 01:02
It was working a few days back and all of a sudden it started showing this error. – user1012181 Sep 29 '14 at 01:06

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 29 '14 at 03:29

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I changed the Windows Hosting to Linux and it worked fine for me. Don't know whats wrong with the Winows hosting and the IIS. Mine was IIS 6 for the Windows hosting. But everything is fine with the Linux Hosting.

answered Sep 29 '14 at 03:29

user1012181

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