Title: Invalid username
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Invalid username

 *  [tardy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tardy/)
 * (@tardy)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-username-22/)
 * Hi there
 * I appear to be getting the message ‘ERROR: Invalid username or e-mail wordpress’.
 * I can get on the blog as usual. Everything else works!
 * I’ve looked in one of the .php files (wp-config.php) and the username is the 
   same there (or at least it reads ‘username_wrdp1’). I’ve tried a variety of different
   configurations of the username – to no avail – I always get this message: ERROR:
   Invalid username or e-mail.
 * What should I do now? Is there a way I can save my current settings using the
   stuff on the server and reboot without losing all the posts/formatting?
 * Thanks
 * Tardy

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 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-username-22/#post-2894681)
 * The user name for the wp login should be different than for the db login.
 * Log in to your hosted site and then the data base. Check the table user meta 
   to see what your wp login name is.
 *  Thread Starter [tardy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tardy/)
 * (@tardy)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-username-22/#post-2894745)
 * Hi kmessinger,
 * I should confess I’m a total novice here! What is the database? Is it something
   I get at through cPanel or the files on Filezilla? (I’m hosting the site with
   Hostpapa, if that helps.)
 * Also, on cPanel, when I go to phpMyAdmin I get this message: “#1045 Cannot log
   in to the MySQL server”.
 * All of this is really odd because the site/server have all been fine for 6-8 
   months!
 * Thanks again
 * Tardy
 *  [jnhghy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnhghy/)
 * (@jnhghy)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-username-22/#post-2894755)
 * Hi,
    From what you describe you have your wordpress set up for you throw cPanel
   so the username for the database was set up automatically the same might go with
   the wordpress username. In the config file you have the username for the [database](http://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description).
   You need to have your phpmyadmin set up correct so you would be able to connect
   to the wordpress databse and get your username from there, also you can try resetting
   your password throw the site password recovery but I don’t think this will help
   you. In the end… contacting the support team of your hosting company I think 
   would be the best for now … Regards
 *  Thread Starter [tardy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tardy/)
 * (@tardy)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-username-22/#post-2894816)
 * Thanks both of you – I’ll get onto HostPapa and see if they have any support 
   they can offer. The main thing is I don’t want to lose the data on the site, 
   so I’m in no hurry to sort this out.
 * Thanks
 * Tardy

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [tardy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tardy/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-username-22/#post-2894816)
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