Unable to change admin password

  • fabthi

    (@fabthi)


    7 years, 1 month ago

    Hello everybody
    A subdomain of my website has suffered a malware infection which I have resolved.
    (posted here https://wordpress.org/support/topic/malware-warning-what-to-do/)
    Both the main website and the subdomain admin pages and actual pages were inaccessible (“Error establishing a database connection”) but while for the subdomain I have been able to reset the admin password from phpMyAdmin and restore it, I have no way to do the same for the main site.
    Despite changes of the password made through phpMyAdmin, the new generated pw doesn’t work nor I can get a password reset.
    Also, the admin page looks weird

    What else can I try?
    Please notice that after correcting the wp-config.php file, the main website is now visible

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by fabthi.
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  • luckychingi

    (@luckychingi)

    7 years, 1 month ago

    try deleting the wp-admin folder, download WordPress on your computer, extract and restore the wp-admin folder (also the wp-login.php)

    Thread Starter fabthi

    (@fabthi)

    7 years, 1 month ago

    hello
    not sure to understand the sequence of steps you are suggesting

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