How to Reset the Admins Password in Joomla

Written by Arian Jahansouz Wednesday, 4 August 2010

This article will give you a step by step guide on how to reset the administrators password for Joomla in the cPanel. Sign into your cPanel and follow these steps:

1) Scroll down to Databases and click phpMyAdmin

2) Select your Joomla database on the left hand side of your screen. For this tutorial, the database is “_example”.

3) Find jos_users and click Browse

4) Click Edit in the admin’s row

5) Find the password field. Change the function of the field to MD5.

6) Change the value of the password to your new desired password

7) Click Go

This concludes how to reset the administrators password for Joomla in the cPanel.

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1 Comment

1. MelissaL   |  Saturday, 23 February 2013 at 3:40 am

   ! Thank you for this.