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...		4936	2	6/12/2019 10:47 PM by Will Strohl
Measures against trace.axd Started By Kasi Recently, there have been numerous attempts to attack DNN websites using a trace.axd exploit. Is there a recommended measure for DNN, or can these be ignored	2	32	2	7/23/2026 4:15 AM by Kasi
Service Unavailable Started By Forro_54 Hi to all, I have getting this error when trying to update blog user permissions on DNN 10.03.02 with DNN Community Blog V6.7.1 settings page. I had the same issue in the past and had to do a clean install of DNN 10 and DNN Blog 6.7.1 to overcome it. Past attempts to resolve this have been unsucessful . Maybe someone can interpret this error Page Load Exception Trevor Forrest Ministries Australia AbsoluteURL /Default.aspx DefaultDataProvider DotNetNuke.Da...	1	118	0	7/11/2026 12:26 AM by Forro_54
Cookie consent options for allowing/declining Started By Intellicom Hello, We are using the built-in DNN cookie consent feature in Site Settings > Site Behavior > Privacy, which is working and shows the message with the 'Got it!' button. I saw on the homepage of the dnnsoftware.com website though that it looks like they may be using the same built-in cookie consent (based on what I see when inspecting the HTML) but they have options to either 'Allow cookies' or to 'Decline'. Is this possible to do with the built-in cookie consent on our DNN sites I am te...		102	0	7/13/2026 9:35 AM by Intellicom
How to delete module message Started By sjones We have a custom login page which is mostly a copy of the default one. However, if a user signs in and they need to accept terms and update their profile. They are first prompted for terms acceptance: And then prompted to update their profile: All good except the message for 'You must accept out terms to continue' which remains after proceeding from the accept terms page to the update profile page. How can we remove this message This is the code which is largely the same as...	2	140	1	4/1/2026 9:42 AM by sjones
Image processor in DNN 10 Started By willem I have the latest version of DNN 10 and the latest version of Open Content. I want to use an image processor to crop, resize, compress images, etc. Which image processor should I use and how can I best implement it The main thing is that I can use it within Open Content.	5	207	2	6/16/2026 4:46 AM by willem
Index Bing no canonical url Started By willem Hi everyone, We’ve noticed that some DNN websites are not being indexed properly in Bing. After some investigation, it seems that a possible cause is that canonical links are missing from the page section. Ideally, each page should include a canonical tag like this: However, in our DNN setup this tag is not being generated by default. My questions are: Why doesn’t DNN include canonical URLs in the by default Is there a built-in setting in DNN to enable canonical tags...	1	152	1	6/17/2026 4:29 AM by willem
DNN and Indexnow Started By willem How to implement index now in DNN https://www.bing.com/indexnow/getstarted most cms have a plugin is there a plugin or connector for DNN. How can I manually implement IndexNow on a DNN website	1	120	1	6/17/2026 7:56 AM by willem
Image compress/resize/crop tools Started By willem How to scale and crop images, and manually define the focal point of images. In DNN or use of external image compression/resize/crop tools What is the best practice for DNN	2	143	0	4/15/2026 4:33 AM by willem
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	177	0	6/10/2026 8:13 PM by Georgeb1951

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