# Error saving back: Error: Web error: 409 (Conflict) on PUT **URL:** \ **Category:** Self Host a Solid Pod\ **Created:** [January 8, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-saving-back-error-web-error-409-conflict-on-put/1011 "2019-01-08T11:29:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rodant](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/rodant/32/1980_2.png) [@rodant](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/rodant)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-saving-back-error-web-error-409-conflict-on-put/1011/1 "2019-01-08T11:29:22Z")
Hello, I’ve created a POD on the community provider and when I try to edit the ttl file of my public area manually i get this error on updating the data: Error saving back: Error: Web error: 409 (Conflict) on PUT … Does anyone has a hint? ---
**Author:** ![aveltens](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/aveltens/32/3987_2.png) [@aveltens](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aveltens)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 11:39am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-saving-back-error-web-error-409-conflict-on-put/1011/2 "2019-01-08T11:39:03Z")
No hint, but I experienced the same problem. ---
**Author:** ![rodant](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/rodant/32/1980_2.png) [@rodant](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/rodant)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 11:45am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-saving-back-error-web-error-409-conflict-on-put/1011/3 "2019-01-08T11:45:42Z")
I took a look in the browser tools and the error from server says: “Can’t write file: PUT not supported on containers, use POST instead” It seems the client and the server don’t fit very well. There is maybe a restriction from the server side, the PUT method isn’t accepted for containers aka no updates. I just wanted to remove a container, is it possible currently? ---
**Author:** ![bourgeoa](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/bourgeoa/32/291_2.png) [@bourgeoa](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/bourgeoa)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-saving-back-error-web-error-409-conflict-on-put/1011/4 "2019-01-08T13:23:19Z")
The easiest way is by using [Solid-ide](https://jeff-zucker.github.io/solid-ide/) ---
**Author:** ![rodant](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/rodant/32/1980_2.png) [@rodant](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/rodant)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-saving-back-error-web-error-409-conflict-on-put/1011/5 "2019-01-08T14:17:17Z")
Thanks for your hint, this looks nice. I’ll try it out. ---
**Author:** ![linonetwo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/linonetwo/32/4039_2.png) [@linonetwo](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/linonetwo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-saving-back-error-web-error-409-conflict-on-put/1011/6 "2019-05-03T15:01:19Z")
Well, I got `PUT not supported on containers, use POST instead` when I use `POST`. My request: ```auto Request URL:https://linonetwo.solidweb.org/public/tiddlywiki/main Request method:POST Remote address:83.169.46.66:443 Status code: 409 Version:HTTP/1.1 Referrer Policy:no-referrer-when-downgrade ``` My request header: ```auto Host: linonetwo.solidweb.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Referer: http://localhost:8080/ slug: $__ link: ; rel="type" Content-Type: text/turtle authorization: Bearer xxx Origin: http://localhost:8080 Content-Length: 0 Connection: keep-alive Cookie: connect.sid=s%3ASzDHavwsxxx Pragma: no-cache Cache-Control: no-cache ``` And the response header: ```auto HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 14:55:48 GMT Server: Apache/2.4.10 (Debian) X-Powered-By: solid-server/5.0.1 Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://localhost:8080 Vary: Accept,Authorization,Origin Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Authorization, User, Location, Link, Vary, Last-Modified, ETag, Accept-Patch, Accept-Post, Updates-Via, Allow, WAC-Allow, Content-Length, WWW-Authenticate Allow: OPTIONS, HEAD, GET, PATCH, POST, PUT, DELETE Link: ; rel="acl", ; rel="describedBy", ; rel="type" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 50 ETag: W/"32-l1KIZEgrpmRDmz4RtkiK4+yJKIU" Set-Cookie: connect.sid=s%3ASzDHavwsfkxxx; Domain=.solidweb.org; Path=/; Expires=Sat, 04 May 2019 14:55:48 GMT; HttpOnly; Secure Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=96 Connection: Keep-Alive ``` Response: ```auto PUT not supported on containers, use POST instead ``` Why would it happened? I’m trying to create a container `https://linonetwo.solidweb.org/public/tiddlywiki/main/$__` I guess the reason is `$` is an illegal character. ---
**Author:** ![A\_A](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/a_a/32/786_2.png) [@A\_A](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/A_A)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-saving-back-error-web-error-409-conflict-on-put/1011/7 "2019-05-03T15:41:50Z")
I don’t suspect $ of being the problem. I’ve tried it and for me the request succeeded: ```auto Request method:POST Remote address:165.227.231.225:443 Status code: 201 Created Version:HTTP/1.1 Referrer Policy:no-referrer-when-downgrade POST /public/Demo HTTP/1.1 Host: otman.solid.community User-Agent: ... Accept: */* Accept-Language: en,en-US;q=0.7,de;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br Referer: https://solid-filemanager.solid.community/public/nightly/?url=https://otman.solid.community/public/Demo link: ; rel="type" slug: $__ authorization: Bearer ... Origin: https://solid-filemanager.solid.community Content-Length: 0 DNT: 1 Connection: keep-alive Cookie: connect.sid=... ``` ---
**Author:** ![linonetwo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/linonetwo/32/4039_2.png) [@linonetwo](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/linonetwo)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-saving-back-error-web-error-409-conflict-on-put/1011/8 "2019-12-24T10:16:47Z")
This is still a problem, so I use PUT instead of POST. Because I always get `PUT not supported on containers, use POST instead` when I use `POST` .