I am having trouble logging into the admin area of a new blog i just bought. i changed the nameservers then uploaded the old database. it is running on wordpress btw. but the username and password i entered during the wordpress installation do not work? any ideas? i am assuming the db has the old username and password associated with it? but i do not know how to change it to the new ones? any help would be appreciated.
You would need to go into the database and change the admin email to yours, then have it send you a password reminder/new password. Do you need help with this?
try opening it with phpmyadmin and editing the admin info. if you have cpanel on your host, they should have it
thanks everyone for the replies. i got the seller to send me the old login details. and i changed the login details via the wordpress dashboard. colleen it would have been much better to go into the db and do what you said. but i could not figure that out quickly enough. it you can be bothered posting how you do that i would really appreciate it. no worries if not though.