How to find out my Manager username and password?

Hi,

I just installed Modx but I cant log in to my manager.
How do i check the email associated with my site?
and how do I check the username and password?

thanks in advance

In the database, look at the field "modx_manager_users". You cannot recover the password, but you can change it by editing the password field and applying the MD5 function to your new password. The associated email will be in the "modx_user_attributes" table, with the InternalKey being the ID of the user in question.

"modx_manager_users" where is this located?

In your database.

thanks.

am I looking for a .php file?

It’s not a php file. Before installing MODx, you created a database, or the MODx installer created one for you. You need to open that database and look at the tables to find that field. You will probably be using something like phpmyadmin which comes preinstalled with most server environments.

If you still have trouble tell us a bit more about your setup, are you using a local server like WAMP or XAMPP or are you on shared hosting, etc etc, and we’ll be able to guide you a bit more

Hope that helps.

Quote from: einsteinsboi at Jun 17, 2010, 10:43 AM

It’s not a php file. Before installing MODx, you created a database, or the MODx installer created one for you. You need to open that database and look at the tables to find that field. You will probably be using something like phpmyadmin which comes preinstalled with most server environments.

If you still have trouble tell us a bit more about your setup, are you using a local server like WAMP or XAMPP or are you on shared hosting, etc etc, and we’ll be able to guide you a bit more

Hope that helps.

Yes this is was very helpful, thanks.
I’m using hostgator to host which you correctly predicted uses phpmyadmin .
Ok starting to get my head round this, thanks m8