I get a 403 error after new installation

Hi there. I was attracted to Litecart partly because you didn't seem to have to have much programming or backend experience. But ... I've just installed Litecart to a subdomain using Softaculous, and now I can't login as admin or see the Litecart site. I get a 403 error. I've looked in these forums and Googled the problem, but without success.

The .htaccess file has been mentioned, but it's all a mystery to me and I've not touched the one that Litecart automatically created.

Any ideas to help a newbie? Many thanks.

Chris

you didn't seem to have to have much programming or backend experience

Me? For real?

Your Apache HTTP error log should be able to tell you why it's throwing a HTTP 403 error. It could be file permissions.

"you didn't seem to have to have much programming or backend experience"

means

"there is not a requirement to have a lot of programming or backend experience in order to use Litecart."

singingman is expressing one of the advantages of Litecart for an inexperienced user. Yet despite the simplicity, is still needing help. It probably depends on what settings were specified in the Softaculous installation. It could be very simple (eg the relative path to the subdomain) or more complicated, there's more information needed. @singingman if you PM me I don't mind trying to help if you screenshot the Softaculous settings screen for the install, but can't promise anything.

Thank you for clearifying @highland_crafts 🙂