Title: Problems on initial admin login
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problems on initial admin login

 *  [st_lawson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/st_lawson/)
 * (@st_lawson)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-on-initial-admin-login/)
 * I am trying to install the newest version of WP and am having problems initially
   logging into the admin account so I can set up another user and start getting
   my blog set up.
 * Specifically, when I go to log in using the admin username and the password that
   was generated, it appears to just refresh the same page. No error message, no
   visible signs of problem, except it doesn’t take me to the admin section, it 
   just shows the same login screen.
    I have tried resetting my password using the
   built-in feature (I get an invalid key error, and yes, I’m copying and pasting
   the whole address). I have tried getting into my MySQL setup and changing the
   password for the admin user through that (using an md5 hash generator to “convert”
   the password). I have tried disabling all of my firefox add-ons and tried logging
   in using IE, Opera, and Safari. I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling
   WP on my account (three times so far), and every time it appears to install just
   fine, but won’t let me log in. I have WP running on another server, and have 
   no problems logging into that installation. Any thoughts as to what might be 
   going on or what I can do to get this working? Thanks in advance for your help.

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 *  [stongea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stongea/)
 * (@stongea)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-on-initial-admin-login/#post-763639)
 * Have you resolved this yet? I am having the same problem and have tried all of
   these things too. I have notice that after I try to login to WP, the MD5 pw stored
   in mySQL gets changed to something different from what the value I used when 
   I reset it thru the command prompt (and yes, I did verify that my change was 
   correctly applied).
 * Please Help!
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-on-initial-admin-login/#post-763642)
 * I have had good luck changing the password as described in [Resetting Your Password through phpMyAdmin](http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_phpMyAdmin).
 * Also see this plugin:
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/md5-password-hashes](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/md5-password-hashes)

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-on-initial-admin-login/#post-763642)
 * Status: not resolved

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