Issue with HTTP methods (DELETE,PUT) not being accepted (returning 405 Method not allowed)

[Scott Bigelow <epheph@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am having an issue with Apache/2.2.22 on Ubuntu 12.04, migrating 
service from an older system, Apache/2.2.3 on CentOS. We make use of PHP
 to serve RESTful requests, but I do not believe this is a PHP issue, 
since the issue is present even when not calling a PHP script.

On the old server, it will accept any HTTP Method (specifically, PUT and DELETE are desired).

On
 the new server, I cannot get it to recognize any method other than GET,
 POST, OPTIONS, and HEADER. Here is my very simple block:

        <Directory "/var/www">
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride None
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
                <Limit DELETE GET>


                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
                </Limit>
        </Directory>

Even
 with this stanza, "curl -X DELETE URL" returns a "405 Method not 
allowed".  When I change "Allow from all" to "Deny from all" in the 
<Limit>, it returns a 403 instead, so I know the block is 
effective for this request. Is there some other part of Apache which is 
preventing the DELETE method? Thanks for taking the time to read through
 my issue,
-Scott