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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Any open vulnerability in DNN 9.13.9 Started By Jasbir Maan Hello everyone, I wanted to check if there are any known open vulnerabilities or security issues associated with DNN version 9.13.9. If anyone has recent information, security advisories, or insights regarding potential vulnerabilities in this version, please share. Ensuring the security and stability of our systems is a top priority, so any details or recommendations for mitigation would be highly appreciated.	3	504	3	8/21/2025 5:29 AM by Jasbir Maan
Porot8 using red buttons .scss Started By Gharaibeh Hi There We have instaled latest Porto8 and DNN10.0.1 then upgraded to DNN10.1.0 but the buttons still reading from .scss at https://projectsdnnupgrad.../Loginreturnurl=2f Do you know why and how to fix it	2	325	1	8/20/2025 1:02 AM by Gharaibeh
SEO Url Management >> trailing slash Started By jayshree humane Hi Team, We are using DNN platform 9.13 SEO >> Url Management >> GENERAL SETTINGS By default, DNN is offering us, SEO urls with no trailing slash. Example - https://domain_name/pagename But, we want SEO url with trailing slash. example- https://domain_name/pagename/ and to achieve this we have enforce additional redirection in Page Setting >> Advanced >> SEO but when we enforce this at page level, all our modules and their settings do not open and give...	1	380	0	7/4/2025 10:22 AM by jayshree humane
DNN Security Center Questions Started By jacton What's the appropriate method to ask questions and verify issues posted in the DNN security center don't affect our install Thanks	4	403	2	6/23/2025 9:36 AM by jacton
Containerizing DNN with Docker Started By AntonioG Hello DNN Community, I'm currently exploring the possibility of containerizing a DotNetNuke (DNN) instance using Docker, and I've encountered some challenges that I hope to get some advice on. My goal is to deploy DNN within a Docker container to streamline development and deployment processes. However, integrating IIS within the container has proven to be a significant hurdle. I have attempted two different approaches to containerize DNN. The first approach was a basic setup that involved...	3	2047	1	2/12/2024 6:17 AM by AntonioG
Reddit Thread "Does Anyone Use DNN Anymore?" Started By Will Strohl Hmmm... Anyone out there a good 'Redditor' Whenever I've tried posting anywhere in the past, I get kicked and/or yelled at that I didn't do something (stupid) correctly. 🤦🏽‍♂️ 😆 If you have the skills I lack in the Reddit world, please reply: https://www.reddit.com/r/...nyone_still_use_dnn/	3	700	2	3/24/2025 3:46 PM by Will Strohl
Validate CheckBoxList - need help! Started By TammyL Trying to validate a CheckBoxList. Have tried everything I've found in documentation to no avail. It just submits with no selection. I've tried the MustBeChecked='True' and same results. I have another control on this same form that has a Checkbox with validation and it works great. My current code: Be a qualified elector (at least 18 years old and resides in Sebastian County). Be able to read and write the English language. ...		405	1	5/6/2025 10:21 AM by TammyL
Anyone seeing errors since upgrading to dnn 10? Started By Craig Mitchell I seem to be getting a lot of isearchable errors since upgrading to dnn 10. UserAgent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/135.0.0.0 ExceptionHash:U000x4xTPJEsRcaJ62KORiZFTDU= Message:Could not load type 'DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.ISearchable' from assembly 'DotNetNuke, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'. StackTrace: InnerMessage:Could not load type 'DotNetNuke.Ent...	11	1364	2	4/15/2025 9:11 AM by Craig Mitchell
Go-To Security Consultant Started By jacton Anybody have any experience with any of the DNN consulting firms in regard to security related items I've got a reoccuring issue that I thought I fixed months ago by upgrading to 9.11.2, but the same issue has occcured again. That's all the details I can give for now, but I'm looking for the best of the best when it comes to security/vulnerabilities to review our system to make sure it doesn't happen again. Thanks!	6	433	3	3/26/2025 9:39 AM by jacton
Mobile redirection Started By Nunuk01 Our current country website www.CountryWebsite.com is working perfectly and accessible using a normal web browsers but when I toggle using browser's device emulator or access the website using my mobile device, it automatically redirects to our mother company's website www.MotherWebsite.com. The Site-Redirection-Management page is not displaying any but I can see values in Mobile_Redirections table in our SQL database. It's just saying that it should redirect to a particular portal Id (which is ...	1	420	1	3/6/2025 7:03 AM by Nunuk01

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