PUT Method not allowed, POST works, but I need to update an existing page not create one

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I am running PHP script in tomcat to update page content in confluence REST API $requestStorage = array( "id" => $parentID, "type" => "page", "title" => $title, "space" => array( "key" => $workspaceKey ), "body" => array( "storage" => array( "value" => "".$contentName."", "representation" => "storage" ), ), "version" => array( "number"=> $version ), ); $qbodyChild = json_encode($requestStorage); $CURLOPT_URL= $GLOBALS['host'] ."rest/api/content/".$parentID ; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $CURLOPT_URL); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $qbodyChild); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false); $headers = array(); $headers[] = "Accept : application/json"; $headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json"; $headers[] = "Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode($GLOBALS['username'].":".$GLOBALS['password']); $headers[] = "Cache-Control: no-cache"; $headers[] = "Content-length:".strlen($requestStorage); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); $result = curl_exec($ch); if (curl_errno($ch)) { echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch); die; } curl_close ($ch);die; I also tried adding "ancestors" => array( array( "id" => $parentID ) ) also work curl -u admin:Abc@1234 -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{"id":"983786","type":"page","title":"title","body":{"storage":{"value":"

testNum

","representation":"storage"}},"version":{"number":2}}' http://localhost:8090/rest/api/content/983786 please help me ASAP TIA

Vidya Shevale_44z4fe · Answer

Hello Stephen, I Implemented script as per above URL $url = 'http://localhost:8090/rest/api/content/1378215'; $ch = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PUT, true); $data = http_build_query([ "id" => 1378215, "type" => "page", "title" => 'title', "space" => [ "key" => 'NEOS' ], "body" => [ "storage" => [ "value" => "This is the updated text WE", "representation" => "storage" ], ], "version" =>[ "number"=> 13 ] ]); //var_dump($data); $tmpfile = '/opt/atlassian/confluence/webapps/blog/WEB-INF/tmp/test.txt'; file_put_contents($tmpfile, $data); chmod($tmpfile,777); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $tmpfile); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, strlen($data)); $response = curl_exec($ch); echo 'Status-Code: ' . curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); $headers = array(); $headers[] = "Content-Type: application/json;"; $headers[] = "Content-Length:".sizeof($tmpfile); $headers[] = "Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode($GLOBALS['username'].":".$GLOBALS['password']); $headers[] = "Cache-Control: no-cache"; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers); echo '

';print_r(json_decode($response, true));echo'

'; curl_close($ch); getting HTTP Status 500 -

Stephen Sifers · Answer

Hello again Vidya,

I went through your document and I have the PHP file running as you specified.

When I tested the PHP file, I am noticing the CURL option for request is set to PUT however, it is being ignored and POST is being instead. This would explain why your getting the 405 response. This seems to possibly be an issue with how Quercus is rendering the PHP itself (to include the variable for $curl). This would also explain why it works in XAMMP but not within Quercus within Tomcat.

To see which method is being used, simply add the following after the curl variable:

echo $curl;

The should present an output similar to:

CurlResource[POST http://localhost:8090/rest/api/content/2588691]

The PHP format you have may not be compatible with Quercus and may need to be changed. I found a another method to using PUT requests in PHP: https://alex.tools/blog/sending-a-put-request-with-curl-in-php/

Regards,
Stephen Sifers

Vidya Shevale_44z4fe · Answer

Hello Stephen,

http://www.studytrails.com/blog/php-on-a-java-app-server-apache-tomcat-using-quercus/

Please check above URL, 
As per above URL I have created a blog folder in webapps folder .
Created script.php in it and accessing  below URL in browser

http://localhost:8090/blog/script.php