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As a joomla developer of nepal , I have developed many websites in joomla! and its really very very hard to remember all the clients password, and sometimes its necessary to reset joomla password. Again just before some hours I reset password for nobel medical college website which is made in joomla. So here  I have described in very easy way to change joomla password from cpanel.  The below images shows the joomla login panel . Which we can generally access from

http://www.sitename.com/administrator

Lets describe how to reset joomla administrator password :
1. Now log in to cpanel of your website from http://sitename.com/cpanel
2. Now the cpanel of your website appears
3. Click on PhpMyAdmin as shown in the below image

4.Now you are in phpMyAdmin page of your cpanel
5. Click your database name from left panel , in the below image nobel_joom1 is my database name

6. Now your are in your joomla database page, click on sql tab as shown in image.

7. now you will find a box “Run SQL query/queries on database ”
8. Inside the box insert the following line which is underlined below
UPDATE `jos_users` SET `password` = MD5( ‘new_password‘ ) WHERE `jos_users`.`username` = “admin” ;

“new_password” – replace this with the new password you wish to use. Like I have used “anynewpassword”

“admin” – replace this if your admin username is different. (You can change password of any username. Like “admin”, “administrator”, “user” or any username)
9. Then click on go button on the below of box in right side.

10. Now go to the administrator panel of your joomla website http://sitename.com/administrator
11. Use the new password for the username that you have changed password.

12. welcome to the joomla administration. Enjoy .

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