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DNN runs on ASP.NET (.NET Framework 4.8+) with Microsoft SQL Server (2017+ or Azure SQL).

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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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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	1845	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	736	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	311	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	688	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	482	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	280	0	7/1/2025 2:20 PM by D0rk52
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	221	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	207	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	312	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	455	0	6/24/2025 3:02 PM by D0rk52

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