DotNetNuke 5.x – What happen to Forums and FAQ and other Modules?

If you’re new to DNN 5.x and you’re very familiar with DNN 4.x or 3.x – you’ll notice some distinct changes, and not all of them are intuitive at all.

Take the Forums and FAQ modules. Where are they?

In DNN 5.x – Sign in as HOST.

Under Host—>(select) Extensions

Scroll this all the way down and click on Install Available Extensions

Now you’ll see the list you’re probably more familiar with – and you can select the modules you’re looking for.

NOTE: If you log into www.dotnetnuke.com and click downloads – you can also find the latest Projects for many of the modules, including much newer ones for DNN 5.x

Hope that helps another newbie to DNN 5.x.

Deleted User Login Control or Changed Login and Delete Page in DotNetNuke and cannot login

During a recent reconfiguration of a client’s site – we encountered this.

Our situation was this: We created a Sign-In page – and under Admin—>Settings – we set the login to use this page. We do this frequently when we stand up a site on a static IP that needs SSL.

At some point later, the Account Login control gets deleted – and regardless of why – it does – and our Sign-In page renders a blank login.

First thoughts are to try to navigate and force the login control using

www.mysitename.com/default.aspx?ctl=login

However, this fails because we setup the login to redirect to our custom Sign-In page.

Thank you very much to John Mitchell’s post and fix for this. NOTE: This works in DNN 4.9 – we do not know about later versions.

Hopefully this will help others out there that shoot their foot off periodically :)