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  • Disabling Password Reset Option for Users on Login Page

    Overview DNN allows you to disable or enable access to the password reset page to comply with your security policy.   Solution When a user visits your site, they will usually be able to see a Reset Pa...

  • Authentication Cookies Behavior When Visiting Different Portals

    Overview The .DOTNETNUKE cookie, which is the default name for the forms authentication cookie, is stored for a specific domain (as specified in the web.config). When Portals share the same domain but...

  • Customizing Login Modules

    Overview To make features more relevant to your site's users, you may want to customize elements of your login page.   Prerequisites Environments DNN 9 and above   Diagnosis For example, if a majority...

  • Using Special Characters in Passwords are not accepted

    Overview While changing your password, when you use special characters (such as _, -, etc.) in your new password, it may not be accepted due to the site's password complexity requirements.   Diagnosis...

  • Do DNN cookies require consent under GDPR?

    Overview The EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) outlines a series of consumer protections that may affect your website. These include regulations that require your visitors' consent to use...

  • Generating a 501 error when trying to hit the Document Viewer API endpoint

    Overview While trying to create a version of the DNN document viewer using the API, you received a 501 error even after attaching to the header of the get request, the request verification token, modu...

  • Password encryption used by DNN

    Overview You would like to know what form of password encryption is used by DNN. Information DNN user registration is built upon Microsoft's MembershipProvider classes that ships with ASP.NET, which a...

  • Error: "The instance <instance-ID>has already been registered"

    Overview You are experiencing an issue with the DNN logs error 'Error occurred while obtaining a token for portalId 0 and application Analytics'. This problem might arise after the addition of Google ...