Reset your Joomla Admin Password

It can be really frustrating to forget your passwords. We can't always retrieve them.

However, there is a way to reset your Joomla admin password, and you do need some common knowledge of how joomla works and how databases operate.

Here is what you need:

  1. PHPmyadmin
  2. this code below

So what you will do is:

  1. Log into PHPmyadmin
  2. press SQL
  3. and paste in this code

UPDATE `jos_users` SET `password` = MD5( 'new password' ) WHERE `jos_users`.`username` = "admin";

If this doesn't work, try changing jos_users to mos_users.

Don't forget to replace 'new password' with what you want your new password to be.

Now you can login to your Joomla website using the new password!

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