Yes. DNN Platform is a free, open-source CMS under the MIT License.

What is the tech stack for DNN?

DNN runs on ASP.NET (.NET Framework 4.8+) with Microsoft SQL Server (2017+ or Azure SQL).

DNN Platform is community-led and a member project of the .NET Foundation.

What’s the difference between DNN and Evoq?

DNN Platform is the open-source core that's been wildly popular and adopted for over 20 years. Evoq is a commercial offering maintained by DNN Software (IgniteTech) that builds on DNN.

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Forum: Installing DNN Platform

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Install DNN in a custom database schema Started By Stéphane Tétard Hi I'd like to know if DNN supports the installation in a custom database schema. I've tested the old object qualifier setting by the past but never the database owner setting. I set a database with a specific login who owns a custom schema named 'dnn'. When I connect to the server with this login. I can run create query and see that it creates objects in the 'dnn' schema instead of the dbo one. But when I try to install DNN with those credentials, it create all the objects in the 'dbo' ...	1	1725	2	9/28/2022 5:12 AM by Stéphane Tétard
unable to install Started By Neil Burkhouse Error is: this configuration section cannot be used at this path. this happens when the section is blocked at the parent level.	7	1121	3	6/30/2023 3:10 PM by Neil Burkhouse
New DNN Installation Gets Stuck at 48% "Creating Site" Started By John Kanost Trying to install DNN 9.11 on a new site, no existing site to upgrade but a fresh installation of the platform. It's getting stuck at this point every time: There a several other DNN sites running on this server, but this is the first time we've tried to stand up one running 9.11. Verified that the root folder permissions are the same as other DNN sites on this server, including that the App Pool account has modify permissions. The first time I let this run for 2 hours and it never moved ...	9	2539	2	3/17/2023 1:24 PM by John Kanost
Cannot bulk install DNN Modules Started By Martijn v.d. L. Hello, We are currently in the process of upgrading our DNN version. For this upgrade we have to bulk install multiple modules. Unfortunately when bulk installing the modules, we receive the following error. This blocks us from bulk installing any modules. The .zip files are still available on the web server when when we navigate to the folder. We have no idea what we could do to solve this issue, could anyone help us solving this issue We have already checked if we can unblock the m...	7	1992	2	5/4/2023 9:29 AM by Martijn v.d. L.
Permissions Started By João Gomes Hey friends. First attempt on installing DNN on windows server 2022 (on my first windows server install at home). Somehow a lot seems different from windows 11 in terms of file permissions and I'm getting a lot of issues on a restored install. I have a drive/DNN folder with /Website and /Database folders. So: c:/ d:/ ------ MyProjectName ----------------- Databases --------------------------------- something.mdf --------------------------------- something.ldf ---------------------...	1	1444	1	3/24/2023 9:53 AM by João Gomes
DNN install for decelopment failing Started By Profk I've spent all day on this. Right now Im getting this from www.dnndev.me Why has no one created a docker with this all set up	2	1465	2	1/20/2023 5:58 PM by Profk
SSO Started By Lee CPQcart.com Does anyone have good experience to a good SSO single Sign On module. I am selling a SaaS Instant Quote product where my customer would add another link option on there site along with there 'Call for Free Quote' also 'Click here for Instant Quote' With SSO they would be able to login with a Gmail acct & possible other existing accts, without needing to add a full user. I only need there email. Thanks in advance for any insite.	2	2190	2	10/16/2021 9:44 AM by Lee CPQcart.com
Fresh install error Started By Gothic Wizard Installing latest DNN, the install runs fine no errors, but when I try to go to my site I get this error. Searching I found this error pops up when you move a site or change database portalalias entires. But again this is a fresh install, any help appreciated; Source Error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace belo...	4	2009	2	11/14/2022 9:56 AM by Gothic Wizard
Compiling Source Code DNN 9.10.2 Started By Mohit Sahu I'm new to DNN and I have DNN 9.6.2 which I can modify,compile and publish. I have to move to DNN 9.10.2 and I downloaded the Source Code of it from github. When I open it in VS2019 and try to build it builds successfully in Debug but on publishing in Release mode i'm getting github error regarding some packages. I found this https://www.dnnsoftware.c...g-901-source-package but on github their is no DNN_Platform_v9.10.2_Source.zip. I found Source Code.zip only. Please point me to the right dir...	9	3683	7	11/16/2021 10:47 AM by Mohit Sahu
How to install DNN 9.10.XX Started By leeyanmang I have a hosting account with the following Connection Strings: workstation id=mungboimedia.mssql.somee.com;packet size=4096;user id=leeyanmxxx_SQLLogin_1;pwd=xxxxxxxxxx;data source=mungboimedia.mssql.somee.com;persist security info=False;initial catalog=mungboimedia How do i set up this connection string in the web.config so that my DNN may be installed. I am confused how to set up this connction string in the web.config, Database is MSSQL 2014 Express.	4	2236	1	8/25/2022 4:43 AM by leeyanmang

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