Wordpress Reset wp-login.php HTTP Authentication Password?

FAQ item 43 is general way to do it and same outlined below just specific to centmin.sh menu option 22 created Wordpress ites.

When you run centmin.sh menu option 22 to create a Nginx based Wordpress site, there will be at end of the process all the relevant login details provided. If you answered yes to HTTP password protect login wp-login.php then those user/password details will be at end of centmin.sh menu option 22 run. As with all centmin.sh menu options logs are automatically saved at /root/centminlogs. So at end of centmin.sh menu option 22 run it will tell you were the log was saved.

example at /root/centminlogs/centminmod_123.09beta01.b203_120719-221749_wordpress_addvhost.log

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-------------------------------------------------------------
vhost for domain.com wordpress setup successfully
domain.com setup info log saved at:
/root/centminlogs/centminmod_123.09beta01.b203_120719-221749_wordpress_addvhost.log
-------------------------------------------------------------

You can search for all the logs via grep filter below

Code (Text):

ls -lahrt /root/centminlogs/ | grep '_wordpress_addvhost.log'

or find command

Code (Text):

find /root/centminlogs/ -type f -name "*_wordpress_addvhost.log"

example output

Code (Text):

ls -lahrt /root/centminlogs/ | grep '_wordpress_addvhost.log'
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  21K Feb  3 22:29 centminmod_123.09beta01.b421_030220-222801_wordpress_addvhost.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  26K Apr 15 21:26 centminmod_123.09beta01.b490_150420-211636_wordpress_addvhost.log

Code (Text):

find /root/centminlogs/ -type f -name "*_wordpress_addvhost.log"
/root/centminlogs/centminmod_123.09beta01.b421_030220-222801_wordpress_addvhost.log
/root/centminlogs/centminmod_123.09beta01.b490_150420-211636_wordpress_addvhost.log

To reset Wordpress wp-login.php HTTP password created by centmin.sh menu option 22 wordpress auto installer, you can use htpasswd.sh script

Code (Text):

vhostname=yourdomain.com
/usr/local/nginx/conf/htpasswd.sh create /home/nginx/domains/$vhostname/htpasswd_wplogin USERNAME PASSWORD

where, you change USERNAME to your desired username and PASSWORD to your password and change yourdomain.com to your wordpress site's domain name

then restart nginx

Code (Text):

ngxrestart

Or if you want to disable http password protection comment out both these lines

Code (Text):

   auth_basic "Private";
   auth_basic_user_file /home/nginx/domains/demodomain.com/htpasswd_wplogin;

like

Code (Text):

   #auth_basic "Private";
   #auth_basic_user_file /home/nginx/domains/demodomain.com/htpasswd_wplogin;

then restart nginx