Cannot reset password via email or db edit

  • Im having trouble. I tried upgrading to 3.7.1 and failed miserably. Some misplaced files i think, due to similar folder-subfolder names. I wasnt even getting the website or the website/wp-admin page.

    Finally got it back up and working by carefully running through and re-uploading my backup files to the server.

    1. Now I try logging in but I can’t login successfully. Im getting the invalid username and pass. I tried resetting the password via the link in the login page but after following the link form my email and entering the new password, I still get invalid username and pass…weird huh?

    2. I tried creating a new user and pass and I can’t login either.

    3. I tried modifying the db wp-users table entry for my user directly in phpmyadmin by entering this value which i was told was admin123 = 0192023a7bbd73250516f069df18b500
    but it doesn’t work. When I click on the GO button after editing my record’s user_pass for that long alphanumeric string, the table shown displays that user_pass for my username, but logging into mysite/wp-admin with my user and admin123 fails just the same. When I return to the db and refresh the users table, the value is different.

    What else can I do? I don’t know what stripping down a db means, nor do I know how to do it.

    pls hlp

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  • Thread Starter marciokoko

    (@marciokoko)

    on the remote server, the file wp-content/backup-db/1874826583_-_mydbname.sql has the date March 2, 2013

    That’s from an earlier version of WordPress. Version 3.5.1, if I’m not mistaken., You cannot use that database backup with 3.7.1 core files.

    Thread Starter marciokoko

    (@marciokoko)

    Well I don’t think i upgraded to 3.7.1. I was trying to but I ended up reuploading most of the backup files for wp-admin, wp-includes, wp-content & root files. How can I know?

    What is listed in wp-includes/version..php

    Thread Starter marciokoko

    (@marciokoko)

    $wp_version = ‘3.5.1’;

    Try re-uploading all files & folders – except the root wp-config.php & .htaccess files and the the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress 3.5.1. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    Thread Starter marciokoko

    (@marciokoko)

    Ok im doing:

    1. dl 3.5.1 zip file from the link you gave me
    2. Deleting root files…uploading root files except config.php & .htaccess

    Question… do i erase wp-admin & wp-includes completely, and upload those complete folders?

    Thread Starter marciokoko

    (@marciokoko)

    Well, I erased wp-admin and wp-includes and then re-uploaded the clean ones and im able to log back into the dashboard.

    Now I Deactivated all plugins but cannot create wp-content directory so it failed again (could not copy files) so Ill do it manually again.

    I deleted wp-admin and uploaded the new one 371
    I can’t delete wp-includes…deleted everything inside except the js folder ??

    Renamed wp-includes to wp-includes.OLD
    Uploaded new wp-includes…

    Finally it worked! Thx!

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