Title: Authentication Codes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Authentication Codes

 *  [William Bowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creative-i/)
 * (@creative-i)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-codes/)
 * I asked this elsewhere but perhaps this is a better location?
 * I grabbed the codes and pasted them into the config.php file but when I ran the
   upgrade error I got an error Line 44, the first one of the codes. Is it commented
   out?
 * Bill

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-codes/#post-922740)
 * Might verify your wp-config.php is correctly edited.
 * If you return you will need to provide more description on that error.
 *  Thread Starter [William Bowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creative-i/)
 * (@creative-i)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-codes/#post-922813)
 * Yes, in config.php the section:
 * /**#@+
    * Authentication Unique Keys. * * Change these to different unique phrases!*
   You can generate these using the {@link [http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/](http://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/)
   WordPress.org secret-key service} * * [@since](https://wordpress.org/support/users/since/)
   2.6.0 */ **44 define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘key 1’);** 45 define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘key
   2’); 46 define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘key 3’); 47 define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘key 4’); /**#
   @-*/
 * I entered the keys I downloaded but the error kicked off from line 44 above.
 * I deleted the codes and the upgrade went smoothly
 * B

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 * Last reply from: [William Bowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creative-i/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/authentication-codes/#post-922813)
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