Discovering the Configuration File

Follow the directions in the file and visit the WordPress secret-key service
Web page (https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt;
be sure to refresh this page a few times to make sure that you get unique
keys) to obtain the keys that you need to replace the existing defaults (rep-
resented in the wp-config.php file by the lines that start with define.
Copy the keys from the Web page and then replace the eight lines of default
(blank) keys in your wp-config.php file. After you do that, this section of
the file looks like this (except with your own, unique secret keys):

/**#@+

* Authentication Unique Keys and Salts.

* Change these to different unique phrases!

* You can generate these with the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/
salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service}. You can change these at any point in

time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to
log in again.

* @since 2.6.0

*/

define(‘AUTH_KEY’,’OkjsE|hTe1A#+yK*;zWOh_~we{X}(uX=TUXtV`WC9Owz_eA@c_
LKH-Le;qKDPcn’);

 

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’,’mGt;>cS&Gn,weoFIoJts[.+8bm$Qk|+|a|]>u<TLQRJBH2_
eb>$TDk{ru&:|$5b’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’,’N13G3G^n8w%B4Nge)|V6TyI!S^Td!u|6_]}8kVSDB]p|@fTu=%>)

M<s>%|t<qJb’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’,’pOj/Uj?&+AJVO9SnRhr<e8:dO+A8>XgSO5SuUYpvkjy@%O:Hi

< Z->|!~YIA+Yq’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’,’8c%^y1/Kts3(I|N9/:`DM(j+qx.rKQh+I##E~e!Oq7|

@p5j^D1:Yic+GQtlX>d’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’,’!$Fi=K0jfK([;1x~EzN,QQOja_y5a|oxl_On~7AIT&8<dE:)

M|DGc?Cb:sQiTor’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’,’N&j*A6khkJb}DhN>)+||e2}(:^Oo+mw!~DV0V;3W:75C|KCrHK[)

7th_w:3%Fqe’);

define(‘NONCE_SALT’,’xscOi.7I=%1;=-{mWjN=+gN03].RjLR6|ZpvbZt@

bqK{p$2p;M.%,&i#9U8SLZ’);

You can change the secret keys any time by editing the wp-config.php file and replacing the keys with new ones. Doing so doesn’t affect the function-

ing of your Web site, but it does require that users log in to your site again, if they were already logged in, because changing the keys changes user

authentication and retires the cookies that had already been placed in their browsers.