
Originally Posted by
lat9
If you're familiar with your webhost's cPanel's phpMyAdmin, you can navigate to your database and, in the SQL tab, enter
UPDATE configuration SET configuration_value = 'en' WHERE configuration_key = 'DEFAULT_LANGUAGE';
Note that if your site uses a DB_PREFIX (like zen_), you'll need to modify that query to read
UPDATE zen_configuration SET configuration_value = 'en' WHERE configuration_key = 'DEFAULT_LANGUAGE';