Joomla- Have Host Acces But No Joomla Admimistrator Access - Any help?

REIMktg

REIMktg

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Trying to help a friend who was abandoned by his Web designer.

It's a Joomla site. We have server access but no Joomla passwords.

Can I do anything to "get in"?

The designer also left the content off the pages. If I cannot get in can I populate the pages with content? With Wordpress it would be easy, but with Joomla the content is in the MySQL from what I have read. Can I access that from the host server side?

Yes, this is in the newbie section, so save your laughs at my ignorance. It's something I cannot find when searching for it.
 


You can either do the above or simply login to your PHPmyAdmin and navigate to the database your site uses and run the following query -

Code: 
UPDATE [COLOR="Red"]example[/COLOR]_users SET password=MD5('e10adc3949ba59abbe56e057f20f883e') WHERE usertype = "Super Administrator";

Replace "example" above with the prefix used during Joomla's installation (Look for tables ending in _users.)

Once the above code has run successfully, your password will be set to 123456 - Login and change it.
 
Thank you to both of you. I could not get this in my searches for some reason.

I appreciate it and will try it soon.
 
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