How do I open an existing website without password

  • I own a website for which I hired someone to design and setup. Unfortunately, the guy I hired, disappeared, leaving me without access to the website. It is built using wordpress under godaddy hosting the last uploads are in mid-2008. I would like to salvage what has been done and expand on it. Is there a way to get the existing website loaded into the new WordPress? GoDaddy doesn’t show that WordPress is installed in my file manager software. Hate to sound like a novice, but I am. And this guy is gone.

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  • You will need to change the admin password from the database. I am guessing that you might have access to phpMyAdmin in the GoDaddy control panel. That seems to be the quickest route.

    There are some instructions and tutorials listed here.

    Resetting Your Password

    Through phpMyAdmin

    Thread Starter bburtjr

    (@bburtjr)

    Thanks for your prompt reply. I think that I didn’t quite make clear what I view my problem as:

    GoDaddy says I don’t have WordPress installed. The website was built using WordPress, because there is a WordPress Login on the HOME page of the website. The files in the “File Management” appear to reflect the filenames established in WordPress.

    I was able to open up the wp-config.php file by some subterfuge and I can see the old DB_NAME, DB_USER and DB_PASSWORD lines within it and could use those in setting up WordPress.

    If I tell GoDaddy to do an install of WordPress, will I lose my old database and all the current files? Can I prevent that? help!

    Bill

    In Wp-config there are constants:
    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘your_database_name’);
    /** MySQL database username */
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘db_user’);
    /** MySQL database password */
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘db_pass’);
    /** MySQL hostname */
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

    1. From here you can get your DB info.
    2. Now from godaddy cpanel go to databases created. login to site database from phpmyadmin.
    3. In table wp-user change password for admin. Normally it is with user id 1. change password field “$P$Brm2mf9HgClG/QkP/hRA3hZDH7X2dF/” this is encrypted form of “admin”.
    4. Now go to your site url and login with your username and password(admin).
    I think this way you get your admin details without losing any data of your site.

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