There are ways to generate MD5 hashes directly in MySQL using the MD5() function:

UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass=MD5('newpassword') WHERE user_login = 'username';

This saves a couple of steps. --Ringmaster 14:17, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

My knowledge of sql and anything that doesn't come with a nice GUI is practically zero. Would you mind too much dropping that into the page where it should go and add / remove whateber is needed ? I really don't know ! Thanks :) --Podz 17:41, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I still don't have a high comfort level editing things here, but I've given it a shot. I made a bunch of updates to the Change Password section in an "improvement" attempt, including the new SQL. --Ringmaster 14:04, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Excellent stuff - Thanks ! --Podz 16:30, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Per request to merge Lost Password with Resetting Your Password, I agree and I made the change. This is referenced from the main page and from several of its subsections. I left the text on the page in comment form so it can be quickly changed if someone disagrees with the move.

Lorelle 21:43, 30 Jan 2005 (GMT)

Where on Apache's website does it say not to use 2.0.53 in favor of 1.3.x? The press release for 2.0.53 says "We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available and encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade." That would seem to fly in the face of the assertion currently on this page. I don't want to clobber that text immediately but it seems to be simply wrong with respect to the current state of affairs.

--Wacwacwac 07:19, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I have changed the answer in question which was only a subjective statement from an end-user. It was not meant to be an authoritative statement from the WP community or anything like that.

Carthik ‹ ℂ › Talk 22:40, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Are you guys sure we don't need to delete files per Answers-Installation#Delete_Filestitle Delete Files. Normally it's a good idea to not have the conf.php file (the file that contains your db login information) on the web server.

--Lazydog 21:56, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

tiny edit suggestion re:Answers-Installation#Rename_Folder. I think it would be nice to add:

If you are using permalinks, you should also update your permalink structure.

(after i renamed my install directory, my comment links didn't work until i did this extra step) --Tkroo 09:40, 7 May 2005 (UTC)]

Strange characters

I've marked this page "Wikify" because of some strange characters appearing in the section Answers-Installation#Create_Database, i.e:

      - ‘wp-config.php’

I get the impression it's perhaps some fancy formatting gone astray? - If it's actually correct and, e.g, my browser is screwing up, please let me know! --Al-khowarizmi 10:32, 14 May 2005 (UTC)