title: Disable OPTIONS HTTP on Apache Server
body: <pre><code>Request:
  OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1
  Host: webcat.staci.com
  Connection: Keep-alive
  Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
  User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.21 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.21
  Accept: */*
  
  Response:
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 12:24:59 GMT
  Server: Apache
  X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
  Allow: GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS,TRACE
  Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
  Content-Length: 0
  Keep-Alive: timeout=7, max=95
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Content-Type: httpd/unix-directory
  Set-Cookie: BIGipServerwebcat-ssl=192938503.47873.0000; path=/; httponly; secure
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i want to disable HTTP OPTIONS on my Apache Server but i want to keep <code>GET</code>, <code>POST</code> and i want to <code>PING</code> my server.</p>
  
  <p>how could I do that ?</p>
  
  <p><strong><em>my httpd.conf:</em></strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>RewriteEngine On
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !^ (GET,POST,HEAD)
  RewriteRule .* – [R=405,L]
  </code></pre>