{"id":262,"date":"2019-12-16T14:25:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=262"},"modified":"2023-11-07T10:27:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T09:27:59","slug":"change-the-password-of-your-database","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/kb\/change-the-password-of-your-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Change the password of your database"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-ht-blocks-tabs wp-block-hb-tabs\"><ul class=\"wp-block-hb-tabs__nav\" role=\"tablist\"><li class=\"wp-block-hb-tabs__head\" data-tab=\"tabs-0\" data-hb-tabs-tab--state=\"active\"><span class=\"wp-block-hb-tabs__head_item\" for=\"tab0\">Web hosting<\/span><\/li><li class=\"wp-block-hb-tabs__head\" data-tab=\"tabs-1\" data-hb-tabs-tab--state=\"inactive\"><span class=\"wp-block-hb-tabs__head_item\" for=\"tab1\">Managed WordPress<\/span><\/li><\/ul><div id=\"tabs-0\" class=\"wp-block-hb-tabs__content\" role=\"tabpanel\" data-hb-tabs-tab--state=\"active\"><p><strong>For web hosting, follow these steps in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.combell.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">control panel\u00a0<\/a>:<\/strong><br><br>1. Go to \u201cMy products\u201d> \u201cWeb hosting\u201d> Click on \u201cManage hosting\u201d next to your domain name.<br><br>2. In the menu on the left you choose \u201cDatabases\u201d.<br><br>3. Here you see a list of databases. Click on the user icon at the database for which you want to change a password (see image). Click on &#8220;Users.&#8221; <br><br>4. Click on \u201cEdit password\u201d for the user whose password you want to change.<br><br>5. Choose a new password and confirm.<br><br><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22568\" style=\"width: 750px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-27-at-4.22.18-PM-3.png\" alt=\"\"><br><br><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22567\" style=\"width: 750px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-10-27-at-4.37.27-PM-1.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p><\/div><div id=\"tabs-1\" class=\"wp-block-hb-tabs__content\" role=\"tabpanel\" data-hb-tabs-tab--state=\"inactive\"><p><strong>For Managed WordPress, follow these steps in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/my.combell.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">control panel&nbsp;<\/a>:<\/strong><br><br>1. Go to \u201cMy products\u201d&gt; \u201cWeb hosting\u201d&gt; Click on \u201cManage hosting\u201d next to your domain name.<br><br>2. On your left, make sure you are in the \u201cWordpress\u201d menu. This is your overview.<br><br>3. Find the \u201cDatabase\u201d section, and click on \u201cChange database password\u201d.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1690\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-6.10.43-PM.png\" alt=\"\"><br>4. A pop-up will appear showing your current database username and asking for your new password. Enter a strong password and confirm by clicking on \u201cChange database password\u201d.<br><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1620\" height=\"652\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-04-at-6.12.43-PM.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-ht-blocks-messages wp-block-hb-message wp-block-hb-message--withicon is-style-info\"><strong>Check for leaked passwords<br><\/strong>To prevent hacking of your website, we compare your passwords with passwords known in the <a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">haveibeenpwned.com<\/a> database.<br>We do this in an encrypted way and never know your entered password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[23,4,43],"ht-kb-tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4238,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/262\/revisions\/4238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}