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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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DNN Breadcrumb not WCAG compliant Started By willem Currently the DNN breadcrumb isn't WCAG compliant. It should be a listing We tried to convert the breadcrumb skinobject in a listing but didn't succeed. Can anyone help us out.	2	188	0	7/1/2025 3:24 AM by willem
Getting block dnncommunity.org after adding a post with some webconfig settings Started By D0rk52 Getting block dnncommunity.org after adding a post with some webconfig settings Cant add code blocks.	1	171	1	7/1/2025 2:17 PM by D0rk52
how to clone my DNN website to another server Started By Jie Hi Community, I’m trying to clone our DNN website from the production server to a UAT server. Could anyone share the standard or recommended steps to do this properly Here’s what I’ve done so far, but the UAT site is not working as expected. I'm wondering if I missed something: Backed up and copied the entire website directory from production to the UAT server Granted Network Service, IIS_IUSRS, and the Application Pool Identity full permissions to the copied directory ...	2	268	1	6/20/2025 1:09 PM by Jie
Performance and Optimization Broken on DNN site images unoptimized Started By D0rk52 Hi everyone, I recently did a fresh install of DNN 10 and noticed that out of the box, images are being served in full resolution without any optimization. When I run performance audits (Lighthouse/PageSpeed), I’m getting a Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) value of 13 seconds, which is marked as poor. The culprit seems to be full-size images being loaded immediately, even when scaled down visually on the page. Performance and Optimization Broken on DNN site	6	404	0	6/24/2025 3:02 PM by D0rk52
Could not load provider DotNetNuke.Providers.RadEditorProvider.EditorProvider, DotNetNuke.RadEditorProvider Started By Jie Hi community, I’m encountering several issues after duplicating our production DotNetNuke (DNN) environment to a UAT instance. I would appreciate any insights or suggestions. After copying the entire site folder, creating the UAT website, restoring the database, and updating the connection string, we’re seeing the following error in the log: Could not load provider DotNetNuke.Providers.RadEditorProvider.EditorProvider, DotNetNuke.RadEditorProvider In addition to this, we are experie...	7	315	1	6/13/2025 10:41 AM by Jie
Asset management and folders Started By alexismaria Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to LOCK an asset folder We had a situation recently where someone accidentally deleted a folder (lots of meeting documents in PDF format). Luckily our IT Manager was able to retrieve it, but can this be done through the portal, locking a folder I know one can lock folders on a server with read-only permissions. Any protective measures and solutions would be great! Alexis	1	245	1	6/12/2025 3:02 PM by alexismaria
Every page is locked in edit mode when logged in as Host user? Started By gbulicanu I have recenty set up my DNN Platform for development and not sure how I locked all pages in edit mode, and when I click on right-bottom 'Edit' button does not get me out of locked mode, and cannot see any more the bottom bar with buttons to manage page settings and add modules. Any know issue or smething please help to understand the use case with locked in edit mode. See here the screen recording.	13	3513	3	6/27/2020 8:29 AM by gbulicanu
Custom DisplayName Started By Keston In Security > Member Accounts > REGISTRATION SETTINGS, I would like the Display Name Format to be [FIRSTNAME] ***** [LASTNAME], so that the value will be 'Cees van Dalen'. But this doesn't work; *** does not change into the actual value, instead it still reads Cees ***** Dalen. I need to seperate the infix from the lastname in order to be able to correctly sort by lastname elsewhere in the website... Can anybody help	7	457	7	5/4/2025 10:15 PM by Keston
Issue where css is not loading when not logged in to website? Started By Tom Melkonian Has anyone seen this issue I'm seeing this on a test intranet website. When I'm not logged in, I just see the raw content with no css. Once I log in, the site /pages look normal. I dont see the same issue on the production version of the site. The test version was recently copied from the production (db and content) .	3	460	1	4/30/2025 1:29 PM by Tom Melkonian
Info about DNN_ActiveDirectoryAuthentication extension ? Started By Tom Melkonian Hi - What's the deal with the DNN_ActiveDirectoryAuthentication extension Is it regularly maintained and does it work well for simple AD integration with DNN We've been using Glanton for our AD integration, which works great, and we plan to move forward with the new version. However, at this juncture, I need to do my 'due diligence' and understand how well the DNN_ActiveDirectoryAuthentication works, since it looks like a free extension included with DNN. I'm aware of the GitHub page fo...	2	330	1	4/28/2025 3:27 PM by Tom Melkonian

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