{"id":1433,"date":"2019-02-08T10:36:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T10:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2019\/02\/08\/1583522-how-to-change-a-database-password-in-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:13:39","slug":"1583522-how-to-change-a-database-password-in-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583522-how-to-change-a-database-password-in-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change a Database Password in Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">You can change your database&rsquo;s password by navigating to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/websites\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Websites<\/a>&nbsp;<\/b>&rarr; <b>Manage<\/b>, <b>s<\/b>earching for <b>Databases Management <\/b>on<b> <\/b>the left sidebar, and clicking on it:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/5e9af044-87d4-4f31-9589-7e71dfb4a4f7.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">In front of the database in question, click on the Options button (<b>&#8942;)<\/b> and choose <b>Change Password<\/b>: <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2019\/02\/b7047654-8cbb-4919-bf77-8e6507dbe191.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">There is also an option to generate a strong password automatically &#128522;<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>NOTES<\/b>:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Changing your database password may <b>disconnect it from your website<\/b>. To fix it, refer to this article: <b><a href=\"\/support\/1583224-how-to-fix-error-establishing-a-database-connection\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">How to fix &ldquo;Error establishing a database connection&rdquo;<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">If your<b> List of Current MySQL Databases And Users <\/b>section is empty, you need to <b><a href=\"\/support\/1583542-how-to-create-a-new-mysql-database\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">create a MySQL database<\/a><\/b> first<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing a MySQL database password via hPanel at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-database-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/1583522-how-to-change-a-database-password-in-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/1583522-como-cambiar-la-contrasena-de-la-base-de-datos-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/1583522-comment-changer-un-mot-de-passe-de-base-de-donnees\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/1583522-bagaimana-cara-mengganti-password-database-mysql-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/1583522-como-trocar-a-senha-de-um-banco-de-dados-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/1583522--------hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5110,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/5110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}