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...		4861	2	6/12/2019 10:47 PM by Will Strohl
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	58	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	65	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	61	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	46	1	5/12/2026 11:02 AM by amurraygbhu
Vunerability CVE-2025-64095 Started By Tony Stallan Hi All, Can someone please let me know if release 9.13.10 addresses vunerability CVE-2025-64095. Many thanks Tony	3	77	1	5/5/2026 4:56 AM by Tony Stallan
Workflow support Started By willem How to implement workflow support (draft → review → publication) in DNN Website is 70 open content, 20 pages html/text, 10 easyDNN (no issue). What is the best practice	1	64	0	4/15/2026 4:30 AM by willem
Bug - Terms not checked on registration of a user Started By sjones There appears to be a bug whereby if a user registers, they are logged in straight away and not prompted to accept the terms until their next login. Can anyone advise	2	49	0	4/21/2026 11:00 AM by sjones
Time Selector missing from Date Picker in DNN module settings. Started By G_Papadopolis Version 10.03.01 Expected behaviour > EDIT MODE > Settings (Gear) ICON> Module Settings > Advanced Settings panel Start Date and End Date pickers no longer have time selector included. Unable to type directly in the text boxes. Can this be changed I need to be able to set an expiration date and time for a module. Thanks (will post this on Git)	3	98	0	4/16/2026 3:04 PM by G_Papadopolis
Site logo not showing in multi language site for one language Started By Harald Just deployed a new website (English/German) with DNN 10.3.0 For some reason, the site logo does only show for German but not for English. Changed the theme back to the standard skin (Aperture) but no luck. Removed the logo, changed language to english, uploaded the logo again and saved the changes, still no luck. Any idea Thanks, Harald	3	61	0	4/15/2026 10:32 PM by Harald

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