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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Using email address for login Started By BruceT My Superuser account has a login name of host. I have a few DNN9 websites that I log in to with no problems but on one of my sites I enabled 'Use Email Address as Username' so now I cant login anymore as obviously 'host' is not an email address, I have tried to login using the associated emil address but I get 'A critical error has occurred. Please check the Event Viewer for further details.' I can still login to the other sites using 'host' so I think this setting change only applies to the o...	3	1934	1	2/19/2021 7:52 AM by BruceT
Where to add viewport setting Started By tony bonn I have added a viewport setting to my home page in page settings advanced. is there a place to add it for the entire site i can't show the code because of forum rules, but if you search for viewport settings you will find an example. it is a meta tag which i added to the page head tag.	1	1565	1	2/21/2021 9:54 PM by tony bonn
Files Management Started By Lnoyer I have several documents that get updated on a regular basis. Is there a way to upload to file management so they a) overwrite the previous version and b) keep the existing URL on a file I don't want to have to update the HTML on the multiple pages in which the document has been linked. Or is there a way to shorten up the url For example, https://www.ihpmi.org/Por...019-06-03-165145-647 is a current URL for one of my documents on ihpmi.org website. I'm not sure how to find what version of...	6	2634	3	2/16/2021 4:06 PM by Lnoyer
DNN 9.1.1 on SQL 2019 Part 2 Started By John Taylor After moving our DNN database from SQL 2014 to SQL 2019, everything seems to be working ok except EasyDNNNews. No changes on the DNN server except for the DB connection string in web.config. I am seeing this error in the DNN logs: [ERROR] DotNetNuke.ComponentModel.ProviderInstaller - System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Could not load provider Christoc.Modules.dnnsimplearticle.Providers.Sitemap.Sitemap, DNNSimpleArticle Any clues as to what might be the issue	2	1542	0	2/18/2021 11:56 AM by John Taylor
Settings popup is empty Started By Andy007 Hello, My site working on DNN 9.7.2. The IIS configured to use HTTPS, and site working on HTTPS But when I open Settings of any module, the popup window it is empty, because Settings use protocol HTTP instaed of HTTPS. How can I fix that Thanks	3	1659	1	2/16/2021 9:27 AM by Andy007
Old Containers and Themes Started By Steve McKenna How do you remove old containers and themes no longer used I have been using DNN for my company site for a bit over 10 years. Needless to say, my site has seen a few different hosts, themes and skins. I am seeing containers on the module settings advanced combo-box that no longer exist. How do I get rid of these orphans Thanks for your help.	1	1675	1	2/12/2021 10:58 PM by Steve McKenna
Page Load Exception Started By Lee CPQcart.com I have a IMPORTANT prospect that is getting Critical errors & I see them in Site Log as 'Page Load Exception' I am not seeing what they indicate as ‘A critical error has occurred. Please check the Event Viewer for further details.’ I can not duplicate the error using the same browser. I saw As part of the DNN 7.3 changes viewstate was optimized. I am at version DNN v. 09.08.01 (0) Can Client Browser setting suppress Critical errors MSG I see google DNN and ViewState Exceptio...	2	2157	0	2/10/2021 12:14 PM by Lee CPQcart.com
500 Internal Server Error, Page Load Exception Error. Started By Shawn We recently reskinned a site because after upgrading versions the skin that the site was using was no longer compatible with the new DNN version that we are using. Everything works great. We get the site looking good, everything organized and working well. Then in the middle of the night the site dies, and throws a 500 Error. Looking through logs we receive a number of Page Load Exception Errors. If I roll the database back to the day that we installed the skin then everything works fine, then ...	4	6058	1	2/10/2021 11:10 AM by Shawn
Started By Cris While upgrading an error occurred 3:21 Minutes \| 0 ERROR occured - {0}: Access to 'C:\Websites\Baknang 2021 0127\Providers\DataProviders\SqlDataProvider\09.01.00.SqlDataProvider' denied. I appreciate any help thanks	1	1843	1	2/11/2021 11:40 AM by Cris
User login fails after successful authentication Started By Richard67 We have had to rebuild a site in 9.8.1. Users have been successfully imported from the old site and all user details and security roles seem correct. We are now at the end of the development process only to discover that while superusers can login successfully, normal users cannot. User credentials entered into the login form are accepted (no errors) but the user remains logged out (pages still display the login link). Superusers can impersonate the user correctly using Revindex Impersonator. Fo...	3	2555	2	2/4/2021 8:29 AM by Richard67

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