{"id":1314,"date":"2012-05-15T21:24:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T21:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/05\/15\/database-name\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:44:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:44:22","slug":"database-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-2-5\/database-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What is my Joomla 2.5 database name?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"alert alert-warning\">Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12\/31\/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.joomla.org\/Joomla!_CMS_versions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you initially installed Joomla 2.5, you were required to enter a database name, username, and password. It is rare, but there may be times that you need to interact directly with the Joomla 2.5 database. For example, you will need to know your Joomla 2.5 database name if you will be<a href=\"\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-2-5\/reset-user-password\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\"> resetting a Joomla 2.5 user password directly within the database.<\/a> If you forgot what your Joomla 2.5 database name is or someone else besides yourself installed Joomla 2.5, you can find the Joomla 2.5 database name within your Joomla 2.5 configuration.php file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>To find your Joomla 2.5 database name within Joomla&#8217;s configuration.php file<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"article_list wp-block-list\"><li>In the top level of all your Joomla 2.5 files, find and view the file named <kbd>configuration.php<\/kbd><\/li><li>Find the database name, which will be listed next to <code>public $db<\/code>, as in: <pre class=\"code_block\">public $db = 'userna5_j25';<\/pre> In the above example, the Joomla 2.5 database name is <strong style=\"font-size: inherit;\">userna5_j25<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12\/31\/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. When you initially installed Joomla 2.5, you were required to enter a database name, username, and password. It is rare, but<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/joomla\/joomla-2-5\/database-name\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4403,82,4288,4305],"tags":[2113],"class_list":["post-1314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joomla","category-joomla-2-5","category-website","category-databases","tag-joomla-v2-5"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What is my Joomla 2.5 database name? | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you forget your Joomla 2.5 database name, you can find it within your configuration.php file. 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