{"id":374,"date":"2010-09-14T05:39:12","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T11:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.supportpro.com\/2010\/09\/how-to-reset-joomla-admin-password\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T06:27:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T12:27:55","slug":"how-to-reset-joomla-admin-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/how-to-reset-joomla-admin-password\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO RESET JOOMLA ADMIN PASSWORD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Login to phpMyAdmin and select Joomla&#8217;s db from the drop down menu. It will show all the tables in that db.<br \/>\n2. In the text field enter the following query.<br \/>\nUPDATE `jos_users` SET `password` = MD5( new_password ) WHERE `jos_users`.`username` = admin ; [Replace the term new_password with your new password and admin with the exact user if it&#8217;s different from admin.<br \/>\n3. Click the GO button once you completes the 2nd step.<br \/>\n4. You should now able to login with the new password.<\/p>\n<p>If you require help, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/requestquote.php\">contact SupportPRO Server Admin<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><span id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b\" class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\"><span id=\"hs-cta-9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b\" class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b\"><!-- [if lte IE 8]><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div id=\"hs-cta-ie-element\"><\/div>\n\n\n<![endif]--><a href=\"https:\/\/cta-redirect.hubspot.com\/cta\/redirect\/2725694\/9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"hs-cta-img-9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b\" class=\"hs-cta-img\" style=\"border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/no-cache.hubspot.com\/cta\/default\/2725694\/9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b.png\" alt=\"Server not running properly? Get A FREE Server Checkup By Expert Server Admins - $125 Value\" \/><\/a><\/span><script charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/js.hscta.net\/cta\/current.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> hbspt.cta.load(2725694, '9d590242-d641-4383-94b4-8cfd62f0af6b', {}); <\/script><\/span><!-- end HubSpot Call-to-Action Code --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Login to phpMyAdmin and select Joomla&#8217;s db from the drop down menu. It will show all the tables in that db. 2. In the text field enter the following&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3370,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supportpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}