#Reset joomla administrator password password#

#Reset joomla administrator password password#

You will see a “1 row affected” message and your password will have been changed to “secret”. In the _users table you can double click in the password field and replace it with:ĭ2064d358136996bd22421584a7cb33e:trd7TvKH圆dMeoMmBVxYmg0vuXEA4199 In the _users table, you can double click in the password field and replace it with your own MD5 password to log in with.īrowse to your Joomla admin p age and enter the password you’ve just set.Ģ. You have two options (please choose one method only) :ġ. What you are looking for is the _users table. If you click on your database you will see all the tables for it. You will be automatically redirected to an interface where all your databases can be seen. There is one way of changing the password and that is by making some changes within the database itself.

↳ 1.Unlike WordPress, there is no “Forgotten Password” option that will allow you to reset your password if you’ve lost it.

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↳ Access Control List (ACL) in Joomla! 2.5.↳ Search Engine Optimization (Joomla! SEO) in Joomla! 3.x.↳ Migrating and Upgrading to Joomla! 3.x.↳ Access Control List (ACL) in Joomla! 3.x.Joomla! 3.x - Ask Support Questions Here.↳ Search Engine Optimization (Joomla! SEO) in Joomla! 4.x.↳ Migrating and Upgrading to Joomla! 4.x.Joomla! 4.x - Ask Support Questions Here.Delete any text in this field and paste in the following and press the Go button. This will display a field called 'Run SQL query/queries on database '.ģ. Press the 'SQL' button in the toolbar to run a SQL query on the selected database. If changing the password won't work, or you aren't sure which user is a member of the Super Administrator group, you can use this method to create a new user.Ģ. If you have been hacked, you may want to change all of the passwords on the site. Check all of the users using the User Manager to make sure they are legitimate. Log in with this user and password and change the password of this user to a secure value. At this point, the password should be changed to 'secret'.Ħ. phpMyAdmin should display the message 'Affected rows: 1'. Into the password field and press the Go button. A form will display that allows you to edit the password field. Find the user whose password you want to change and press the Edit icon for this row.ĥ. This will show all of the users that are set up for this site.Ĥ. Click on the 'Browse' button in the top toolbar. Click on the table 'jos_users' in the list of tables.ģ. This will show the database tables on the left side of the screen.Ģ.

Navigate to phpMyAdmin and select the database for the Joomla! site in the left-hand drop-down list box. This requires that you have access to the MySQL database using phpMyAdmin.ġ. If the admin user is still defined, the simplest option is to change the password in the database to a known value. If this method will not work, you have two other options, both of which require working with the MySQL database directly. The site will send an e-mail to the user's e-mail address and allow you to change the password. If you have access to the email address that was used for the admin user, and you have made the 'lost password' feature available on the front end, the simplest thing is to do is to use the 'lost password' Front-end function. There are three possible methods discussed below. In these cases, it is still possible to fix up the Joomla! database so you can log back in as a Super Administrator. Or maybe you have forgotten the password that was used. Or perhaps the person who knew the passwords is no longer available. For example, your site may have been 'hacked' and had the passwords or users changed. In some situations, this may not be possible. To do this, you must be logged in as a member of the Super Administrator group. Normally, you can add, edit and delete users and passwords from the back-end User Manager.