ajax calls always give "method not allowed", but only when we deploy to forge (nginx). The same code works perfectly on Apache.

We have a number of ajax calls which work perfectly on all environtments except forge servers (nginx/ubunut16).

We are at a complete loss to find what the problem is, and we can't go live. Any help or ideas appreciated.

This is one of the problem routes:

Route::post('/posts/reskin/{idpost}/{tabnr}/savetext','reskinController@savetexts')

It works in apache, but on forge servers Laravel is returning "something went wrong" and

Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\MethodNotAllowedHttpException

This is the request taken from the debugger on a working system which uses apache:

Request URL:http://poop.test.com:8080/public2/posts/reskin/1000/1/savetext
Request Method:POST
Status Code:200 OK
Remote Address:127.0.0.1:8080
Referrer Policy:no-referrer-when-downgrade
Response Headers
view source
Cache-Control:no-cache, private
Connection:Keep-Alive
Content-Length:4
Content-Type:application/json
Date:Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:16:18 GMT
Keep-Alive:timeout=5, max=100
Server:Apache/2.4.27 (Win64) PHP/7.1.10
Set-Cookie:XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6InQ4MnZ1T2ptTTRzUTA4UzlVSGRWZ0E9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiUDZoOWo1WU1lWkhEcWRBMmlVOUQ0eUlHVWlqQkdQOHBwZUc0c09mZXlVVFlnVW13c3Z2QVNmVW16ZVJ6SHBLSjhSUENtM1E0bDlHVjRodzJJeGFyR3c9PSIsIm1hYyI6IjUwNzQyYjM2OTMwODlhOWQ4ZTZmZGYyYzhjYWY1YTM5MzdmODM0MDZiOWVlNGUyOTBiNjFhYTU3YmFkOWY0ODMifQ%3D%3D; expires=Tue, 24-Oct-2017 13:16:18 GMT; Max-Age=7200; path=/
Set-Cookie:laravel_session=eyJpdiI6IkR1blRTcU5zNDFGRG04cXpKYzByZkE9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiVjdIQk8rcUVQZU1kTGE4VUxcL3IwUTNoR1wvbGx1Q25XSFFpOVwveXpyVGdYTWhtRlRSekkrYXUwYktPUW14UG1pSG4zcEdqeXZmK2xVVDRJZ1wveE1PazN3PT0iLCJtYWMiOiI3OWYwMzk4NWMwMTk5NDgzZGZkNjY5ZDUyZWE2ZDBlZDZjNzAxZGYyYmUwYTNhMmUyNTRhMmFmZTNjMGIyYjYwIn0%3D; expires=Tue, 24-Oct-2017 13:16:18 GMT; Max-Age=7200; path=/; HttpOnly
X-Powered-By:PHP/7.1.10
Request Headers
view source
Accept:application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate
Accept-Language:en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6
Cache-Control:no-cache
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Length:744
Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
Cookie:XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IlpwMTNtWVdabGZrMDJ3RkZwaU96WUE9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiaFAyOEV6MnBLc0ZVbFVTSnlFYWZJUjNzdVdwXC9vRXVvZWk3STE1dFdrNEc4UkhlSFZSMUI3Z2NZVVZhbHd4eEVpXC9scW1mTDNqZzNhcUlRUkJcL1NoeVE9PSIsIm1hYyI6IjAxOWExODhhNTBhYmU4N2JlZjJmMjE3ZTk0ZWU4NDUyN2E0ODljNDc3NjY3ZjBkMmQwM2M5OTQ0NDc0ZTA4NTgifQ%3D%3D; laravel_session=eyJpdiI6Ink0VnJ5d1diYytBNXdKUk9sRWErOUE9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiK0tcL3VJU1BZM1QwVU1nbzN0V2ZpUmJoN3V3MmUxTUROMGVoZk16d1VQQnFaNFZcL2E5b2x1RkpaY3h5bWUxXC9BMmpTdGhENDlmRXQzY0REMGNTUDUrSEE9PSIsIm1hYyI6ImQyZDcyYmRlNzQ0MmFmODAxY2QzZjU1NmM5M2E1ZGVkZDcxNmUwNTI0NmNiMmM2N2RmMTIyZDQxZmQ0ZjJiZDIifQ%3D%3D
Host:poop.test.com:8080
Origin:http://poop.test.com:8080
Pragma:no-cache
Referer:http://poop.test.com:8080/public2/posts/reskin/1000/1
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36
X-CSRF-TOKEN:XEvPMGZc93ynUCB0J1mvH6Xn3fJTbhlURtGG2HQQ
X-Requested-With:XMLHttpRequest

This is the same post but to a forge server with identical software which fails:

Request URL:https://my.xxx.com/posts/reskin/1000/1/savetext
Request Method:POST
Status Code:404 
Remote Address:111.162.156.61:443
Referrer Policy:no-referrer-when-downgrade
Response Headers
allow:POST
cache-control:no-cache, private
content-encoding:gzip
content-type:text/html; charset=UTF-8
date:Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:12:30 GMT
server:nginx/1.13.3
status:404
vary:Accept-Encoding
Request Headers
:authority:my.xxxx.com
:method:POST
:path:/posts/reskin/1000/1/savetext
:scheme:https
accept:application/json, text/javascript, */*; q=0.01
accept-encoding:gzip, deflate, br
accept-language:en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6
cache-control:no-cache
content-length:738
content-type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8
cookie:XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IndRXC94bnFOZGdlamFkVTAwYXhHa053PT0iLCJ2YWx1ZSI6Ik5YTzhHN2pzbEJxSWlhWkkxYjdjR0NZeEZYTkZYNUpEcnJPMWFjaEN3N0lDK2g4V3ZmQ1FLN2hBeUprQnFIVFZcL2gwcm1ibnZSOGYwMGFrejRMOFNBdz09IiwibWFjIjoiZmQ3OTUwOWE0MGVjMWZmMTY0MTBhMTM1YzcxNTc4MjM2MjhlNjk5MTE0ZWU2NDA5MzgzYWE4OTU4Y2ZlYWFhOSJ9; laravel_session=eyJpdiI6InVHS3FSUm55bnBORThyemFlZ2N6dkE9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiaVpJb3NLMkVWQ1JNWTgwa2s2U0FwMEdFek1QYnVtREFYWHpGeDhza1VXXC81XC9YTTF2TEdiaUtcL2U5ZGRCXC80aXB2VWx5UklBSWg5Qmx5NzlYYkM2ZytRPT0iLCJtYWMiOiJhOTIyMjEzZmRjOGNmZTY4MzU5Yzc5OTFhMTgyNTIzNjk0MzAwNDE5OGFkM2NiN2RiNjZiOGRkYzUzNWU0YTk1In0%3D
origin:https://my.xxxx.com
pragma:no-cache
referer:https://my.xxxx.com/posts/reskin/1000/1
user-agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36
x-csrf-token:eoe71Ki3gRSaB4VYN4Cm0Yfc3IjokoXfqYDShu2f
x-requested-with:XMLHttpRequest

We tried changing the POST method to PUT, but nginx always rejects before it hits laravel with a 405 method not allowed. apparently, you cant use PUT with nginx.

the nginx config was created by forge, and looks like this:

    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    # FORGE CONFIG (DOT NOT REMOVE!)
    include forge-conf/my.xxxxx.com/server/*;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    access_log off;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/my.xxxx.com-error.log error;

    error_page 404 /index.php;
    :

The ajax code looks like this:

function SaveTexts () {
    $.ajaxSetup({
        headers: {
            'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
        }
    });
    
    var formData = {
        _token:$('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')
    };
    
    var max=0;
    
    $("#textsmine input").each(function( index ) {
        console.log(index+ " -> " + $(this).attr("name") + ": " + $(this).val() );
        formData["name"+index]=encodeURI($(this).attr("name"));
        formData["value"+index]=encodeURI($(this).val());
        max+=1;
    });
    
    formData["nrslots"]=max;
    
    var my_url = window.location.href+"/savetext"; 
    var type = "POST";
    
    $.ajax({
        method: type,
        url: my_url,
        data: formData,
        dataType: 'json',
        success: function (data) {
            if (data=="JA") {
                console.log(data);
            }
            else {
                console.log('Error1:', data);
            }
        },
        error: function (data) {
            console.log('Error:', data.responseText);
        }
    });
}