Hello Pals. I am just learning Joomla and after installing my Joomla, I did a little homepage yesterday and today i tried accessing the administrator page with my Admin details and this is what I get. I am very sure I am using the correct details. What might be the problem and any ideas how I can solve this?

don't distrub yourself much, just go to the database and check for the username and password or change it from there

How do I do that please? The dbs under my root foldeR?

Let's be honest here: Chances are that you are not using the correct details otherwise you wouldn't be getting this error

Sha, this has happened to me before:

If you have the login module on your actual site, click on "forgot password" and you should be prompted for your email address. Upon matching your records, the system should email you your username and password or email you a link to change your password and you go from there.

Good luck, and let us know how it goes.

@Mashnino
Even if he goes to the databse, the password is encrypted so he can't see anything. He should do what Yawatide suggested. Click on "forgot password" whether it it hosted on a real or local server as long as you're connected to the internet.

Guys, I am not using a web server, I am using WampServer. Just for self training purpose.

Wampserver is also a web server that you use to run PHP pages on your local PC.

oh yes. I meant that i use a local server. But there is nowhere to click forgot password anywhere on the joomla login page.

toluxa1:

oh yes. I meant that i use a local server. But there is nowhere to click forgot password anywhere on the joomla login page.

k.
Go to the home page. There a login form by the left. That's where you have the "forgot password" link.

OP: afam4eva speaks well. hear ye him

Typically, when you install joomla, the admin interface is at www.yoursite.com/administrator. What afam is saying is, go to www.yoursite.com which is what the site looks like (the assumption here is that you installed the sample template, as opposed to the blank template. If you installed the sample template, you will see the login module. If you didn't, then you have a problem.

Yeah Joomla does use md5. I am not sure it is salted.
What you need to do is to save this as a php script and run-it

olodo.php

<?php
echo md5("olodo";
?>

Dont bother, the md5("olodo" = b81a30a9fbf941a8b00e89fc8980a200


Next, open your database - look for maybe users table - replace
the old password with the new one b81a30a9fbf941a8b00e89fc8980a200

Disclaimer: olodo - is just an arbitrary - and is not the name of a person.

*dhtml:

Yeah Joomla does use md5. I am not sure it is salted.
What you need to do is to save this as a php script and run-it

olodo.php
Dont bother, the md5("olodo" = b81a30a9fbf941a8b00e89fc8980a200


Next, open your database - look for maybe users table - replace
the old password with the new one b81a30a9fbf941a8b00e89fc8980a200

Disclaimer: olodo - is just an arbitrary - and is not the name of a person.

oga has said it all

yawa-ti-de:

OP: afam4eva speaks well. hear ye him

Typically, when you install joomla, the admin interface is at www.yoursite.com/administrator. What afam is saying is, go to www.yoursite.com which is what the site looks like (the assumption here is that you installed the sample template, as opposed to the blank template. If you installed the sample template, you will see the login module. If you didn't, then you have a problem.

I have not installed any sample template, the site is not even hosted yet. I didnt even do anything online at all.

If you didn't do anything online at all, how do you know you have login problems?

In any event, I assume you at least have it installed on a local server (like wamp. . .Please say "yes" ). If so, same difference. Follow the same steps. Only that in place of "www", you will type "localhost" or "127.0.0.1"

Change the Password in the Database

If the admin user is still defined, the simplest option is to change the password in the database to a known value. This requires that you have access to the MySQL database using phpMyAdmin.

Navigate to phpMyAdmin and select the database for the Joomla! site in the left-hand drop-down list box. This will show the database tables on the left side of the screen.

Click on the table "jos_users" in the list of tables.

Click on the "Browse" button in the top toolbar. This will show all of the users that are set up for this site.
Find the user whose password you want to change and press the Edit icon for this row.

A form will display that allows you to edit the password field. Copy the value

d2064d358136996bd22421584a7cb33e:trd7TvKHx6dMeoMmBVxYmg0vuXEA4199

into the password field and press the Go button. phpMyAdmin should display the message "Affected rows: 1". At this point, the password should be changed to "secret".

Log in with this user and password and change the password of this user to a secure value. Check all of the users using the User Manager to make sure they are legitimate. If you have been hacked, you may want to change all of the passwords on the site.

This is very crazy. . .

thanks yawa-ti-de, afam and co. for all the help but chiwex's solution is EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks so much chiwex, worked like juju.

he he, toluxa, yep, me sef follow learn something today.

Thanks chiwex

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