Its easy to create a bcrypt hash on commandline with this command: $> htpasswd -nbBC 10 USER PASSWORD Just replace the Placeholder USER and PASSWORD with the corresponding values. The Result should be something like that: USER:$2y$10$gfPbhclOrdjmMLEXSc5CTOWP5aBfjl59hhGvjp/qWXf1FfbQKb5ca The part before “:” is the username. The rest is the bcrypt password hash. The -C parameter specifies […]
Recently I had the pleasure to setup Contao (https://contao.org/) in the Amazon cloud (AWS – Elastic Beanstalk). Therefore I had to enable HTTPS behind loadbalancers. The problem was, that the AWS-Loadbalancer is the SSL Endpoint / SSL Terminator in an AWS Beanstalk – architecture. Contao didn’t recognize, that it was running under HTTPS and therefore set the wrong […]
Recently I forgot the password of my Contao (https://contao.org) admin backend user. To regain control of the content management system, I had to reset the password for user in Contao database. All backend users and their credentials are stored in the Contao database in the table tl_user. The password is saved in the field password via a […]
