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

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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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Suddenly "Web Server Updated" every few minutes on all sites Started By Kasi Suddenly for several hours on every DNN site (~20x) with no changes or updates from me: 'Web Server Updated' in DNN Admin Log every few minutes. No DNN update (currently 9.11.2 all sites) No server update (currently WS 2012) Can someone help	22	6079	3	4/12/2023 10:11 AM by Kasi
All link on http site point to https addresses Started By Tim van der Horst I recently upgraded from 9.* to 9.9.1 and now all the links in the only two sites that not yet use an SLL certificate point to https addresses. So I can still navigate to http://www.example.com but inside of it all links point to https://www.example.com - thus issuing a browser certificate warning making it almost impossible to use the sites. I am not convinced that updating to 9.9.1 has caused the issue. I recently installed SSL certificates for two of my other sites on that server. These...	8	3404	3	4/30/2021 5:28 AM by Tim van der Horst
Disable SQL Console Started By Vicenç Masanas I've been asked to disable the SQL Console on a DNN installation for security reasons. Is there any option for this Anyone tried	5	272	2	9/5/2025 9:25 AM by Vicenç Masanas
New DNN9 installation keeps throwing this weird recursive error in my Logs Started By EdoDNN It's a new installation, I upgraded from 8 to 9 recently. The site only has default extensions on it and some content. I keep getting this weird recursive error from the login page I guess. It's HTML encoded in my logs but once decoded it comes out to be this: /Default.aspxctl=Login&returnurl=/Default.aspxctl=Register&returnurl=/login.aspxReturnUrl=/login.aspxReturnUrl=/login.aspxReturnUrl=/login.aspxReturnUrl=/WolframSyndrome/ACloserLookatWS.aspx&tabid=56,/Default.aspxctl=Login&retur...	8	267	2	9/3/2025 11:33 AM by EdoDNN
Issue configuring oAuth for SMTP Authentication Started By Timo Breumelhof. I'm trying to configure oAuth for Email using the Exchange option. After a few config hickups we ended with the problem that apparently DNN send a non https return addres to office 365. We do have https redirect in place but ion the end this is the error we get: AADSTS50011: The redirect URI 'http://www.website.com/Providers/SmtpOAuthProviders/ExchangeOnline/Authorize.aspx' specified in the request does not match the redirect URIs configured for the application '****************************...	14	1509	3	9/4/2024 6:38 AM by Timo Breumelhof.
LLMs.txt in multi portal setup Started By Tycho de Waard (SU) Hi all SEO has been part of our game for a long time, now GEO. So, optimization for generative AI like Chatgpt, Deepseek, Gemini etc. For this, one needs to upload a LLMs.txt in the root folder. In a regular setup not a problem but in e multi portal setup: how do you do this	9	679	3	8/13/2025 3:33 AM by Tycho de Waard (SU)
Started By Hans Zassenhaus We are experiencing an issue with errors issued whenever we attempt to use many of the Persona Bar operations. The software issues a HTTP 405.0 error. Looking at the error log entry, we notice that the value for the Requested URL appears to be mal-formed as shown below: Module ManagedPipelineHandler Requested URL https://vwcProd:80/API/pe...s/UpdateUserSettings Notification \| ExecuteRequestHandler Physical Path C:\home\site\wwwroot\API\personaBar\UserSettings\UpdateUserSettings Handl...	7	276	2	8/4/2025 11:25 AM by Hans Zassenhaus
Despite assigning the “Full” toolbar to the desired roles the “Basic” toolbar is still being displayed in the CKEditor. Started By Allen Hall Despite assigning the “Full” toolbar to the desired roles the “Basic” toolbar is still being displayed in the CKEditor. We need DNN Blog authors to see the “Full” tollbar when editing a blog. Note the following: The “Full” toolbar IS displayed when I’m logged in as administrator. I can edit the “Basic” toolbar to display more buttons and it work as intended even for those users who are not admininstrtors.	14	604	1	8/3/2025 6:59 PM by Allen Hall
Trying to get copilot websocket connections working through enterprise firewall Started By Evan Anyone have any tips on the settings required to get the copilot assistance working via enterprise firewall Ie can outbound decryption be applied I'm finding the ip addresses that ersolve to ws-be.copilot.dnnsoftware.com change multiple times within 30seconds and the firewall also can not keep up and match the client request to the firewall resolution. Is it possible to just choose a couple and fix them	3	431	1	7/16/2025 6:46 PM by Evan
2sxc on DNN 10 405 Errors on Delete/Save Actions Started By D0rk52 Hey everyone, I'm running into persistent 405 Method Not Allowed errors when trying to delete or save content using the 2sxc module on DNN v10.00.01 with 2sxc v19.03.05. Hosting Environment: IIS 10 (self-hosted) DNN 10.00.01 2sxc App with content editing on multiple pages (blogs/services) Issue: Whenever I try to delete content or save certain edits in 2sxc, I get the following error: azmanagedit.com says: Had an error talking to the server (status ...	3	241	0	7/1/2025 2:20 PM by D0rk52

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