After logging into phpMyAdmin, find the users table.
You should see the admin user in it.
Click edit. Under the user_pass line, change the Function to md5 and the Value to your new password.
Hit Go to run the insert command. Now you should be good to log in.
Looks like you can get the above error sometimes if you close out your tab too quickly, or there is some sort of plugin problem. Looks like you can resolve it by deleting the “.maintenance”
More info here
Quick look at the commands. Skip below to view the explanation of the commands
ssh steve@incredigeek.com cd ~/ wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz tar zxvf latest.tar.gz vi wordpress/wp-config.php <-- Edit MySQL settings mv -R wordpress/ /var/www/html/ exit steve@localhost ~: chrome incredigeek.com/
SSH into your webserver
ssh bob@yourserver.com
Download the latest version of WordPress
cd ~/ && wget https://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
Extract the WordPress archive
tar zxvf latest.tar.gz
Create MySQL database and user
Refer to here if you want to do it from the command line. The recommended way is through your web control panel i.e. cPanel, Plesk, EHCP etc.
Edit wp-config.php
Enter in the DB information.
vi wordpress/wp-config.php
Move WordPress files to web directory
mv -R wordpress/* /path/to/webdir
If you want to install WordPress inside a sub directory on your website i.e. instead of going to “example.com” to access your WordPress site, you go to “example.com/wordpress”, then create a sub directory in your root web directory and move the WordPress files there.
Open up a browser and go to your website (example.com) to finish the WordPress installation.