apache proxy module gives 403 forbidden error

Question

Hi, I am trying to use the apache's proxy module for working with xmpp on ubuntu desktop. For this i did the following things -

1) enabled mod_proxy by creating a symlink of proxy.conf, proxy.load and proxy_http.load from /etc/apache2/mods-available/ in the mods-enabled directory.

2) Added the following lines to the vhost

    <Proxy http://mydomain.com/httpbind&gt;
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
   </Proxy>

   ProxyPass /httpbind http://mydomain.com:7070/http-bind/
   ProxyPassReverse /httpbind http://mydomain.com:7070/http-bind/

I am new to using the proxy module but what i can make from the above lines is that requests to http://mydomain.com/httpbind will be forwarded to http://mydomain.com:7070/http-bind/. Kindly correct if wrong.

3) added rule Allow from .mydomain.com in /mods-available/proxy.conf

Now i try to access http://mydomain.com/httpbind and it shows 403 Forbidden error..

What am i missing here ? Please help. thanks

Edit : The problem got solved when i changed the following code in mods_available/proxy.conf

    <Proxy *>
            AddDefaultCharset off
            Order deny,allow
    Deny from all 
    Allow from mydomain.com                        
    </Proxy>

to

    <Proxy *>
            AddDefaultCharset off
            Order deny,allow
    #Deny from all 
    Allow from all                         
    </Proxy>

Didnt get what was wrong with the initial code though

Answer 1

Try example from this post here "Making cross-sub-domain ajax (XHR) requests using mod_proxy and iframes" http://bit.ly/4yiAOv