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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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	365	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	1928	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	634	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. ...		362	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	1243	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	398	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	383	1	3/6/2025 7:03 AM by Nunuk01
Getting error in DNN v9.13.3 Started By Bharat I have downloaded DNN v9.13.3 from the official github. After opening it in the VS 2022 and building the solution, I am getting these errors -	1	356	1	3/5/2025 6:14 AM by Bharat
Expose secure folder through API Started By Jasbir Maan Hi Team, Is there a method to expose the files in the secure site assets folder via the API, allowing access for authenticated DNN users Thank you in advance.	1	404	2	3/3/2025 10:51 AM by Jasbir Maan
Favicons not displaying in Google Search Results Started By Bobby Weaver Hello All, I have multiple portals on DNN installations (running 9.11.00) & having an issue with favicons not displaying in the Google Search Results when they are uploaded via Site Settings. We're finding if we manually add a link to the icon in Page Output Settings though, it is being picked up (same file that is added via Site Settings). So I'm trying to whittle down why it works one way, but not another. The SEO Manager on the team noticed when added manually, instances where double ...	15	2957	1	4/26/2024 1:24 PM by Bobby Weaver

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