diff --git a/nginx/defaults/main.yml b/nginx/defaults/main.yml
index bd0facdf..16b1ef02 100644
--- a/nginx/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/nginx/defaults/main.yml
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ nginx_cors_global: True
 nginx_cors_limit_origin: True
 nginx_cors_extended_rules: False
 nginx_cors_acl_origin: 'http?://(localhost)'
+nginx_cors_allowed_methods: 'GET, POST, OPTIONS'
 
 # Find a set of acceptable defaults for the cache setup
 nginx_cache_enabled: False
diff --git a/nginx/templates/nginx-cors.conf.j2 b/nginx/templates/nginx-cors.conf.j2
index 13827c92..83c36d6f 100644
--- a/nginx/templates/nginx-cors.conf.j2
+++ b/nginx/templates/nginx-cors.conf.j2
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
 {% else %}
     add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
 {% endif %}
-    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
+    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' '{{ nginx_cors_allowed_methods }}';
     #
     # Custom headers and headers various browsers *should* be OK with but aren't
     #
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ if ($request_method = 'POST') {
 {% else %}
     add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
 {% endif %}
-    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
+    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' '{{ nginx_cors_allowed_methods }}';
     add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Accept,Authorization,Cache-Control,Content-Type,DNT,If-Modified-Since,Keep-Alive,Origin,User-Agent,X-Mx-ReqToken,X-Requested-With,Accept-Language,X-CustomHeader,Content-Range,Range';
     add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Accept,Authorization,Cache-Control,Content-Type,DNT,If-Modified-Since,Keep-Alive,Origin,User-Agent,X-Mx-ReqToken,X-Requested-With,Accept-Language,X-CustomHeader,Content-Range,Range';
 }
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ if ($request_method = 'GET') {
 {% else %}
     add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
 {% endif %}
-    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
+    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' '{{ nginx_cors_allowed_methods }}';
     add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Accept,Authorization,Cache-Control,Content-Type,DNT,If-Modified-Since,Keep-Alive,Origin,User-Agent,X-Mx-ReqToken,X-Requested-With,Accept-Language,X-CustomHeader,Content-Range,Range';
     add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Accept,Authorization,Cache-Control,Content-Type,DNT,If-Modified-Since,Keep-Alive,Origin,User-Agent,X-Mx-ReqToken,X-Requested-With,Accept-Language,X-CustomHeader,Content-Range,Range';
 }
@@ -48,8 +48,9 @@ add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
 {% else %}
 add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
 {% endif %}
-add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
+add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' '{{ nginx_cors_allowed_methods }}';
 add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'Accept,Authorization,Cache-Control,Content-Type,DNT,If-Modified-Since,Keep-Alive,Origin,User-Agent,X-Mx-ReqToken,X-Requested-With,Accept-Language,X-CustomHeader,Content-Range,Range';
+add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Accept,Authorization,Cache-Control,Content-Type,DNT,If-Modified-Since,Keep-Alive,Origin,User-Agent,X-Mx-ReqToken,X-Requested-With,Accept-Language,X-CustomHeader,Content-Range,Range';
 {% if nginx_cors_limit_origin %}
 if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
     return 204;