Title: Recovering Joomla Admin Password
Short description: Forgotten the password is a saddest situation that may happen to all and to those joomla user's, the worst of it is that if you don't know to recover it, this happen maybe because you are using different passwords, username or email in your different ...
Long description: Forgotten the password is a saddest situation that may happen to all and to those joomla user's, the worst of it is that if you don't know to recover it, this happen maybe because you are using different passwords, username or email in your different accounts. So just an advice, limit your login information used. Now back to our tutorial on how to recover joomla administrators password. For xampp user go to your XAMPP control panel by typing http://localhost/xampp/ to your address bar, for wamp user http://localhost/wamp/ Proceed to phpMyadmin and select your joomla database. Browse to "jos_user" table (NOTE: that "jos" prefix may vary) Edit the appropriate user's entry, in the password field you will a see the encrypted password. Select the MD5 function Change the value of the encrypted password to your temporary password and save it. Return to your joomla backend and login using your temporary password. To change your password click site and navigate to User Manager and enter your new password,verify and save. That's it you have your new password, be sure to remember it.
Link URL: http://allaboutcms.blogspot.com/2010/08/joomla-secrets-revealed.html [Report bad link?]
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Link keywords: Recovering Joomla Admin Password
Short description: Forgotten the password is a saddest situation that may happen to all and to those joomla user's, the worst of it is that if you don't know to recover it, this happen maybe because you are using different passwords, username or email in your different ...
Long description: Forgotten the password is a saddest situation that may happen to all and to those joomla user's, the worst of it is that if you don't know to recover it, this happen maybe because you are using different passwords, username or email in your different accounts. So just an advice, limit your login information used. Now back to our tutorial on how to recover joomla administrators password. For xampp user go to your XAMPP control panel by typing http://localhost/xampp/ to your address bar, for wamp user http://localhost/wamp/ Proceed to phpMyadmin and select your joomla database. Browse to "jos_user" table (NOTE: that "jos" prefix may vary) Edit the appropriate user's entry, in the password field you will a see the encrypted password. Select the MD5 function Change the value of the encrypted password to your temporary password and save it. Return to your joomla backend and login using your temporary password. To change your password click site and navigate to User Manager and enter your new password,verify and save. That's it you have your new password, be sure to remember it.
Link URL: http://allaboutcms.blogspot.com/2010/08/joomla-secrets-revealed.html [Report bad link?]
Category: Software
Link keywords: Recovering Joomla Admin Password
