Changing wp-config settings

  • Resolved deswalsh

    (@deswalsh)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    I noticed in the wp-config file for one of my sites that the username was/is for a tech from the web hosting company (I had probably provided access at some stage when the site crashed) and the password was/is one of those ridiculously easy ones – no, not “password” but numbers in sequence>

    I’m concerned because I had a problem with accessing the admin section of the site and found a stray line of code at the top of the wp-config file, matching the error message I was getting in lieu of access. So I’m wondering if the file is very hackable and has been hacked.

    The DB section reads (with some substitutions by me to explain what is there):

    define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘correct name’); // The name of the database
    define(‘DB_USER’, ‘webhost tech username’); // Your MySQL username
    define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘numbers’); // …and password
    define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
    define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
    define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

    I want to delete the web host tech user from the database and would like to have my own username and password there but don’t want to wreck access to the site by doing that.

    Is there a simple solution to this, please

    Site is https://deswalsh.com

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  • You should first of all create a new user for the existing wp database from Cpanel.

    Then edit your wp-config.php with the username and password for the newly created user.

    Once this is done, you can safely delete the old user from your Cpanel.

    Thread Starter deswalsh

    (@deswalsh)

    Thanks Chiraq – much appreciated.

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