Iis 405 Http Verb Used To Access This Page Is Not Allowed Email

First off, I'm familiar with IIS however do not have much practical experience, hence why I have come here. I have setup IIS7 and put my HTML website, scripts etc into the wwwroot

Solution 1:

405 means that your Web Server is not recognizing the HTTP metod(GET,POST,HEAD etc.) in the request. In your case I think that .pl extensions are not allowed by default to handle POST requests. Please refer to this link (taken from here) for creating Handler Mappings.

Solution 2:

The most important thing to check with this error is the HTML tab within the Console window. Or if the error is showing in the browser, look there. In either case, look at the file type of the "Requested URL".

If it's a *.json file, follow these instructions. If it's some other format, you may have to adjust the exe file that's used in the handler mapping. Make sure to configure each at the server level!!! Don't click the site before clicking the Mime Types or Handler Mappings; click on the server name (in the tree/object explorer) instead so each site inherits the settings. Your web.config gets the handler mappings applied explicitly if you set them on the site also, but it doesn't if you add it at the server level.

http://www.uipress.com/add-json-handler-support-in-iis-7/#.UT_bw9aOR8E

Since you're dealing with CGI, you will have a slightly different script map executable. That should at least get you on the right track.