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: Administration and Configuration

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First time configuring DNN? Started By Will Strohl Is this your first time configuring DNN Did you just get told to take care of the website and don't know where to even begin Well, you're in the right place. Ask your configuration/admin questions in this forum and also feel free to review the documentation for this topic using the link below. [Edited by someone other than Will ...] https://dnndocs.com/content/administrators/ The link above doesn't work. You may want to look at https://dnndocs.com, but the admin section is decided...		4909	2	6/12/2019 10:47 PM by Will Strohl
How to delete module message Started By sjones We have a custom login page which is mostly a copy of the default one. However, if a user signs in and they need to accept terms and update their profile. They are first prompted for terms acceptance: And then prompted to update their profile: All good except the message for 'You must accept out terms to continue' which remains after proceeding from the accept terms page to the update profile page. How can we remove this message This is the code which is largely the same as...	2	114	1	4/1/2026 9:42 AM by sjones
Image processor in DNN 10 Started By willem I have the latest version of DNN 10 and the latest version of Open Content. I want to use an image processor to crop, resize, compress images, etc. Which image processor should I use and how can I best implement it The main thing is that I can use it within Open Content.	5	192	2	6/16/2026 4:46 AM by willem
Index Bing no canonical url Started By willem Hi everyone, We’ve noticed that some DNN websites are not being indexed properly in Bing. After some investigation, it seems that a possible cause is that canonical links are missing from the page section. Ideally, each page should include a canonical tag like this: However, in our DNN setup this tag is not being generated by default. My questions are: Why doesn’t DNN include canonical URLs in the by default Is there a built-in setting in DNN to enable canonical tags...	1	128	1	6/17/2026 4:29 AM by willem
DNN and Indexnow Started By willem How to implement index now in DNN https://www.bing.com/indexnow/getstarted most cms have a plugin is there a plugin or connector for DNN. How can I manually implement IndexNow on a DNN website	1	108	1	6/17/2026 7:56 AM by willem
Image compress/resize/crop tools Started By willem How to scale and crop images, and manually define the focal point of images. In DNN or use of external image compression/resize/crop tools What is the best practice for DNN	2	124	0	4/15/2026 4:33 AM by willem
another too_many_redirects issue Started By Georgeb1951 I got up this morning, and this site is down because of too many redirects. when i go to https://speckmanforsheriff.com I get Your connection is not private and the error is net::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID This server could not prove that it is speckman4sheriff.com; its security certificate is from *.oes-colorado.org. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection. But my iis binding a are If I go back to safety or hit the site with http: ...	5	157	0	6/10/2026 8:13 PM by Georgeb1951
Request for help diagnosing Search Crawler/Search Results issue (no results returned for any keywords) Started By Laurence This is regarding the native DNN Search Results module/Search Crawler scheduled task. The DNN version is the latest (10.3.2). Up until recently, the search was working fine ... pages, native & third party modules were being indexed and results shown for all. Then one day search results stopped being shown ... every search term entered results in 'No Results Found'. This seems to have coincided with installing an updated version of a third party module (but the same was done on a test copy ...	7	141	1	6/2/2026 5:09 AM by Laurence
Content workflow - staging Started By willem We are getting more and more customer requests about content workflows and staging within DNN CMS. I know there are some workflow capabilities available through the Text/HTML module, but I would like to understand what is currently possible in the latest versions of DNN Platform. Specifically: Is it possible to have content approved by a specific user or role before publishing Is there a dashboard or overview showing content that is still pending approval Are notifications or a...	3	100	2	5/20/2026 9:04 AM by willem
Cookie Consent banner error Started By amurraygbhu I am wanting to enable the cookie consent banner. I enabled the setting in the privacy section of Site Settings. However when the website loads I am not getting the banner. When checking in the Developer console I am getting the following error; 'Refused to apply style from ... because its MIME type ('text/javascript') is not a supported stylesheet MIME type, and strict MIME checking is enabled.' Is anyone able to provide some assistance with this issue	5	88	1	5/12/2026 11:02 AM by amurraygbhu

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