How to reset Joomla admin password

Saturday, 17 October 2009

If you have lost or forgot your login information from your joomla website, it's very easy to fix this problem. You can change the admin password with a simple MySQL query. The simplest way to manage your databases is with phpMyadmin that can be found in cPanel.

So here are the steps what should follow:

1. Login to cPanel
2. Access the phpMyAdmin
3. Select the database
4. Find the jos_user table, and go to browse
5. Find the Super Administrator user and go to edit
6. Select the password function to MD5, enter your new password, and change the user name to admin, than click GO to proceed.

If everything goes well, your new password should be active with user name: admin and password: your new password entered above.

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