Forgot my admin password :(

I have been looking into lost admin password here and all say that i have to connect to phpmyadmin and change the password from there but here is the funny thing i cannot connect to phpmyadmin from my browser this is what i get

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

but i have root accsess to the server i am the owner of the box can i do somthing within putty ?

any help would be appreciated.

 

try this;

Code:

/etc/init.d/mysql stop
mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
mysql -u root

you should now see

Code:

mysql>

then;

Code:

use mysql;
update user set password=PASSWORD(”Yourpasswordherethatyouwant”) where user=’root’;
flush privileges;
quit
/etc/init.d/mysql stop
/etc/init.d/mysql start
mysql -u root -p

enter the pass you just made .. let me know if it worked, got it from google

 

no that did not work for me

[root@box1 ~]# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
-bash: /etc/init.d/mysql: No such file or directory
[root@box1 ~]# /etc/init.d/mysql stop
-bash: /etc/init.d/mysql: No such file or directory
[root@box1 ~]# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
[1] 3698
[root@box1 ~]# mysql -u rootA mysqld process already exists

but if you could help me to get my phpmyadmin and webmail working that would be grate

 

i went out the backdoor with this if you have absolutely nothing on your server i mean no domains and anything not hosting anything than this is the best way you can fix this

and if you have root privilege on the server your box then just ssh this

Code:

mysql -uUSERNAME -hHOST -pPASSWORD

Replace USERNAME, HOST and PASSWORD with your actual username, host (database server) and password.

and then

Code:

DROP DATABASE database_name;

database_name would be dbispconfig

to delete the database from the mysql server

and then just run installer again and you are done

Code:

cd /tmp
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ispconfig/ISPConfig-3.0.1.3.tar.gz?use_mirror=
tar xvfz ISPConfig-3.0.1.3.tar.gz
cd ispconfig3_install/install/

php -q install.php