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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Admin left - how to use Started By Deleted User Our Developer / Administrator left and sadly no documentation is available. A colleague of mine is trying to log on and figure out how to use it. We see DNN related information, we are on a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 and think maybe DNN version 7 or version 8 We see code like this in Microsoft Edge browser - We are trying to reverse engineer this to, one figure out what is used, etc. So, we have a request to store video's on our webserver. We had a developer who did it for ...	1	1837	1	12/16/2020 11:16 AM by Deleted User
Learning DNN Started By joegreen Hello, I found https://dnndocs.com/ kind of parse. I also looked for books and found some on version 4 and 5. Are there any books or training documenation avaiable for those new to DNN. I see lots of videos but looking for something that follows a more structred path as I'm new to DNN. Joe	4	2649	2	11/6/2020 2:45 PM by joegreen
Work with images Started By Alexandru Ionescu Hello, I am using dnncommunity.org for generating the path to my images, like : img src='http://dnncommunity.org/portals/0/Images/Carousel/50fc4d56-c5ec-4907-a0e3-9f40af82dcc9.jpg' The output contains the localiztion and obviusly the path is wrong: http://localhost/dnn_platform_9.8.0/ro-ro/portals/0/Images/Carousel/50fc4d56-c5ec-4907-a0e3-9f40af82dcc9.jpg What is the best way to working with images in a Html module	2	2362	1	11/24/2020 1:24 PM by Alexandru Ionescu
Restoring a backup to Azure VM Started By Dennis Firstly I am new to DNN but not IIS so please correct anything I may be doing incorrectly! We are using DNN v9.1.1. Our web host recently lost our sites due to a crypto ransom attack so we decided to host it ourselves on our Azure VM. I restored the file structure and database successfully and have our primary site working perfectly on our primary domain name. I created a single Site in IIS pointing to the root file structure containing all of our sites. We have a number of other sites/portals b...	1	1510	0	12/8/2020 7:05 PM by Dennis
Editing content changes layout Started By joegreen Hello there, I have Xcilion and Xilion V2.0. On the default homepage, under Conntect and Participate, there are 2 rows with 3 tiles in each. There is a papragraph under 2 rows. When I click on pencil to edit content. As soon as I save the content 3 tiles go away and end up with one tile per row. I have even tried working in source code thinking that may be editor is doing something strange things. Any idea why is this happening Joe	3	2180	2	11/26/2020 2:21 PM by joegreen
How to modify footer content Started By joegreen Hello, I installed DNNMDesign theme from DNN Store. In footer, there is a link called DNN theme created by DnnConsulting.nl. I need to remove this link so I went to \Portal\_default\Skins\DnnMDesign\includes\footer-legal.ascx file and removed the above line. When I view the page, I still see the above line in the footer. What am I doing wrong Joe	1	3168	0	11/23/2020 9:11 AM by joegreen
Site Management Services Started By Lee Turner I apologize if I am posting this in the wrong section, but it seemed like the best choice. I am looking for someone who can manage a custom site developed using DNN. I found 13Below and Engage Software online and was wondering if anyone had any experience with them or anyone else they would recommend. Site Summary: Site was developed ~5 years ago and uses a custom developed module and template. The site was not updated for many of those years and has just recently been updated to 9.6. The cl...	1	1717	1	11/9/2020 8:34 PM by Lee Turner
How do I edit the content in a layout? Started By Kyler Thompson I'm trying to edit the content in the top navigation menu and the footer of my 4 layouts. I assume each theme has a set of files that I can download to change the content or the css of my layouts. I can't find these files anywhere. Not sure what I'm missing.	9	3237	3	11/4/2020 5:48 PM by Kyler Thompson
Xcillion Home Page Started By joegreen Hello, I have installed DNN v 9.7. In default Xcillion, I'm trying to modify the homepage. In this theme, it looks like there is only one choice for homepage. How do I remove the boxes called Docs, Community, Code, etc At the bottom of the page it says, DNN Commmunity Social Channels. I was able to edit this text but how do I edit the link attached to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube icons. How do I add/remove these icons Joe	3	2026	1	11/6/2020 10:47 AM by joegreen
Datagrid with Filter capabilities Started By Alexandru Ionescu Hello friends, May you recomand to me a grid with filter capabilities built-in. I am already using the asp:webgrid but I need filter capabilities as the old devexpress grid has. Thank you,	1	2160	0	11/2/2020 1:24 PM by Alexandru Ionescu

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