How to make Zend Framework 2 work with nginx?

You really do not need any rewrite rules to make Nginx and ZF2 to play nice together. Here is a very simple Nginx configuration which I use:

server {    listen *:80;    server_name DOMAIN;    # Character Set    charset utf-8;    # Logs    access_log /vhosts/DOMAIN/logs/access_log main;    error_log /vhosts/DOMAIN/logs/error_log;    # Directory Indexes    index index.php;    # Document Root    root /vhosts/DOMAIN/public;    # Location    location / {        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;    }    # Error Pages    error_page 404 /404.html;    error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;    # PHP-FPM Support    location ~ \.php$ {        fastcgi_pass unix:/usr/local/etc/php-fpm/DOMAIN.sock;        include fastcgi.conf;    }    # Block access to .htaccess    location ~ \.htaccess {        deny all;    }}

Of course change the paths to your current setup. Since you did not mention what type of PHP installation you are using I can't help you there because I am currently using PHP-FPM.

Using this very simple setup all my modules are working as expected. For example I could visit http://example.com/some/url OR http://example.com/index.php/some/url

Nginx also has a simple configuration for ZF http://wiki.nginx.org/Zend_Framework#Time_for_nginx

Edit 1 - Added fastcgi_params config

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;fastcgi_param  HTTPS              $https if_not_empty;fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirectfastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;

To follow up on Diemuzi's answer.

Please remember, that if you want query parameters to be working in your application, you have to pass them along with try_files

Best way i found is to use both $is_args and $args. $is_args sets only a question mark if there is arguments, and $args pass the query arguments.

Replace

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;

with

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;

Now you can use query params as normally in your ZF2 application for example in a default controller

$query_params = $this->params()->fromQuery();