When moving your VuFind® instance into production, there are quite a few details you should consider. This page helps to gather them into a single list.

One of the most important considerations when going to production is security. See the Security page for some helpful suggestions.

Most of VuFind®'s default user interface is designed to be as generic as possible. However, there are some areas that are intended to be customized with locally-relevant content (or disabled). Some templates you should consider overriding in your local custom theme:

• header.phtml is a good place to add your institution's name and logo.
• footer.phtml includes a “Need Help?” section with some links to information (“Ask a Librarian”, “FAQs”) that you will want to customize or disable.

VuFind®'s default configurations are designed to offer a reasonable starting point for most users, but there are a few settings that you will almost certainly want to change, and there are a number of optional features which are disabled by default but worth considering.

• By default, VuFind® has the “Sample” ILS driver enabled, which returns fake and useless status information. The web-based installer will encourage you to change this.
• By default, VuFind® shows the “topic” facet above the search results, instead of along the side with the rest of the facets. If you dislike this split approach, you can move the topic_facet setting from [ResultsTop] to [Results] in facets.ini.

• For very large indexes, deep navigation into the Solr index can cause performance problems. You can set the result_limit setting in searches.ini to limit pagination.