How to Reset Joomla Password
If you forget your Joomla password, you can reset it in one of three ways:
- Use the Forgot your password link on the login screen
- Reset the password through QuickInstall
- Manually reset the password through the database with phpMyAdmin
Lost your password?
- Go to your login screen at http://example.com/index.php/component/users/?view=login (replace example.com with your actual domain and installation location).
- Under the login form, click on Forgot your password.
- Enter the email address of the account you're trying to log into.
- Click Submit to have the password sent to your email address.
QuickInstall Password Reset
- Log into cPanel.
- Under Software/Services, click on QuickInstall.
- In the top navigation bar, click My Installs.
- Click "Reset Password" next to the installation for which you would like the password reset.
- Select the user you want to reset.
- Type in your new password in the "Password" field.
- Click Reset Password to change the password for the selected user.
Manual Password Reset
- Log into cPanel.
- Under Databases, click phpMyAdmin.
- Click on the Joomla database from the list on the left. (If you installed this through QuickInstall this will be named
jmln#
.) - Click joom_users on the list.
- Under username, you will see the list of registered users. Under the user for which you want to reset the password, click edit.
- Under the password column, clear the value on the far right and replace with the following:
d2064d358136996bd22421584a7cb33e:trd7TvKHx6dMeoMmBVxYmg0vuXEA4199
- At the bottom of the page, click GO.
- Using the new password, you can now login to the account to change the password to one of your choosing.