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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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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: Upgrading DNN Platform

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CKEditor issues when upgrading from DNN 9.1.1 to 9.2.2 Started By Tom Melkonian Hi - I'm working on upgrading from DNN 9.1.1 to 9.2.2 (on a test website) and seeing a number of issues. Html Editor doesnt work after upgrade - I have CKEditor Editor Provoder 2.1.3 installed. I will print the error below (can I attach a file here). Should I upgrade CK editor before I upgrade to DNN 9.2.2 Also (and this persists on my site from before the upgrade) when I go to Site Settings > Site Behavior > More > Open HTML Editor Manager, I get a 404 error. Anyone know how this mig...	1	2724	0	9/27/2019 8:37 PM by Tom Melkonian
Upgtrading from DNN 9.1.1 to DNN 9.3.2 Started By Tom Melkonian Hi - Upgrading our sites from DNN 9.1.1 to 9.3.2 - I'm aware that I need to upgrade to version 9.2.2 first, and then to 9.3.2. I'm working on a test server using a copy of our production site, to test the process before dooing so on production. From Will Strohl's post on another thread (thanks Will), steps to upgrade from 9.1.1 to 9.2.2 are: 1. Install security patches (there are two) 2. Potentially upgrade third-party extensions 3. Update any custom extensions to be compati...	3	2722	1	9/20/2019 8:15 PM by Tom Melkonian
ScriptManager error after upgrade Started By Alpine IT I'm following the guide for stepping our old server from version 4.7 up to 7.4.2 (https://www.dnnsoftware.c...gested-upgrade-path) and after the first jump (test environment) from 4.7 to 4.9.5 I'm running into some errors. What I've done so far (in case it is related to what I'm getting now): 1 - When I first loaded the page after the upgrade, I got the error described here: https://www.dnnsoftware.c.../445023/scope/posts. To fix it, I renamed the App_Browsers folder to .old and the upgr...	3	2786	2	9/18/2019 3:26 PM by Alpine IT
9.4 post upgrade issues - critical error editing Module Settings Started By Dave Madison After upgrading from DNN 9.32 to 9.4, I am not able to edit any module settings. It throws the exception below: AbsoluteURL:/Default.aspx DefaultDataProvider:DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke ExceptionGUID:0cfdb909-afd2-4b05-8648-867ec967cab8 AssemblyVersion:9.4.0 PortalId:4 UserId:2 TabId:70 RawUrl:/Home/ctl/Module/ModuleId/520ReturnURL=/&popUp=true UserAgent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282....	3	3410	1	9/13/2019 12:29 PM by Dave Madison
9.4 Post Upgrade issue - Cannot change settings of current page Started By Dave Madison When looking to manage the settings of the page that is currently active, either by means of the page settings gear via the pencil on bottom of the page OR buy going to the 'Pages' admin page, the current page is not able to be selected to see the settings tabs. I can click on any of the other pages and am able to get to the settings tabs, but the current page is not selectable. The only way to get to that page's settings is to go to a different page on the site and then go to the Pages pa...	3	3348	2	9/13/2019 12:36 PM by Dave Madison
9.4 upgrade error 'Could not load file or assembly' Started By TopCat In several attempts to upgrade my localhost from 9.3.2 to 9.4 using 'DNN_Platform_9.4.0_Upgrade.zip' I get an error when accessing the site after unzipping the files to the server. Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040) Here is the full error message. Any ideas on the problem Description: An u...	19	13495	4	9/12/2019 10:06 PM by TopCat
Upgrade to 9.4 Fails Started By John Jacobson Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040) body {font-family:'Verdana';font-weight:normal;font-size: .7em;color:black;} p {font-family:'Verdana';font-weight:normal;color:black;margin-top: -5px} b {font-family:'Verdana';font-weight:bold;color:black;margin-top: -5px} H1 { font-...	3	3162	2	9/13/2019 3:31 AM by John Jacobson
Upload Files Started By Rodney I'm unable to upload files in dnn html text module after upgrading to 9.3. Works from Site Assets. Do I have to install a new text editor, if so which one should I use and how do I go about doing it Thanks for any help.	7	5456	2	9/11/2019 9:14 PM by Rodney
update DNN 9.1.0 to 9.2.0 version evoq Content Basic Started By Andres the portal after updating it from version 9.1.0 to version 9.2.0, where in version 9.1.0 it loads correctly showing the content correctly, after the update it only shows the default screen. sometimes when installing version 9.2.0 this installation process fails in the newtonsoft	3	2529	0	8/29/2019 3:43 PM by Andres
Upgrading DNN Started By Chris I am attempting to upgrade from DNN 08.00.04 to 09.01.01 (a recommended upgrade step) and the installer fails the with following error. Please help. Upgrading DNN Current Assembly Version: 09.01.01 Current Database Version: 08.00.04 Upgrade Status Report 00:00:00.112 - Upgrading to Version: 09.01.01 00:00:00.162 - Executing Script:09.00.00.SqlDataProvider Server Error in '/' Application. The process cannot access the file 'D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\DotNetNukeGlob...	2	3084	0	8/6/2019 10:26 PM by Chris

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