You can serve VuFind® using Nginx as an alternative to Apache. There is not currently an officially distributed Nginx configuration, but the examples below may help you get things working.

This example configuration was shared by Sascha-Oliver Prolic.

server {

    listen 80;
    root /path/to/vufind2/public;
    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    server_name your-server-name;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
      }

    location ~ ^/themes/([0-9a-zA-Z-_]*)/css/(.*)$ {
      default_type text/css;
      alias /path/to/vufind2/themes/$1/css/$2;
    }

    location ~ ^/themes/([0-9a-zA-Z-_]*)/images/(.*)$ {
      alias /path/to/vufind2/themes/$1/images/$2;
    }

    location ~ ^/themes/([0-9a-zA-Z-_]*)/js/(.*)$ {
      alias /path/to/vufind2/themes/$1/js/$2;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
                fastcgi_param VUFIND_ENV development;
                fastcgi_param APPLICATION_ENV development;
                fastcgi_param VUFIND_HOME /path/to/vufind2;
                fastcgi_param VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR /path/to/vufind2/local;
                fastcgi_param VUFIND_LOCAL_MODULES your-module-name;
                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

This example configuration was shared by Horacio Degiorgi.

If you want to serve VuFind® in a different location (in this case, “/explorador”) you can use alias and rewrite instead of try_files.

 location ~ /explorador/themes/([0-9a-zA-Z-_]*)/css/(.*)$ {
      default_type text/css;
      alias /usr/local/vufind/themes/$1/css/$2;
    }

    location ~ /explorador/themes/([0-9a-zA-Z-_]*)/images/(.*)$ {
      alias /usr/local/vufind/themes/$1/images/$2;
    }

    location ~ /explorador/themes/([0-9a-zA-Z-_]*)/js/(.*)$ {
      alias /usr/local/vufind/themes/$1/js/$2;
    }

location /explorador/ {
    alias /usr/local/vufind/public/;
    index index.php;
    ## Check for file existing and if there, stop ##
    if (-f $request_filename) {
        break;
    }

    ## Check for file existing and if there, stop ##
    if (-d $request_filename) {
        break;
    }

    ## If we get here then there is no file or directory matching request_filename ##
    rewrite (.*) /explorador/index.php?$query_string;

    location ~ \.php$ {
                fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
#               fastcgi_param VUFIND_ENV development;
#               fastcgi_param APPLICATION_ENV development;
                fastcgi_param VUFIND_HOME /usr/local/vufind;
                fastcgi_param VUFIND_LOCAL_DIR /usr/local/vufind/local;
#               fastcgi_param VUFIND_LOCAL_MODULES your-module-name;
#               fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9090;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                include fastcgi_params;
    }
}