Back in early December, 2011, I installed WordPress on my home Apache web server. Then I got busy and didn't use it. I carefully logged the password for the admin user in the notebook I use to track changes I make to the machine. That's not where I usually write down passwords, so when I had some time the other day to fiddle with WordPress again I couldn't find the password. The log in screen offers to reset the password and send it by e-mail but it appears that's on option that I have to turn on. Of course, I didn't turn it on, and I need the password to get to the place where I can turn that feature on. Sigh.
So, I Googled the problem and found this page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password I followed the instructions in the section "Through MySQL Command Line" but I still can't get in. I do remember my MySQL password and I can successfully step through all the steps in that method of resetting a password. I tried both the one where I manually run md5sum on a file with just the new password in it, and the version of the method that takes advantage of the MD5 function in newer versions of MySQL. Both looked like they worked, and both produced the same md5 string. But neither of them got me past the login screen for WordPress. At this point I'm willing to drop the wordpress database and start the installation over since I don't have anything of significance invested in it, but that doesn't seem like the UNIX way. So I ask the assembled wizards if there's something else I can try. Thanks for any and all ideas. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
