Mojolic...:daemon(3)

💅 Mojolic...:daemon(3) — bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is the manual page for Mojolic...:daemon(3), straight out of the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection. no cap, it's a whole vibe. let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

Mojolicious::Command::daemon — the Daemon command. that's literally the whole name, she's lowkey humble about it 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the way that you just run it like this:

Usage: APPLICATION daemon [OPTIONS]

and here's the group chat of example invocations, all iconic, all valid:

./myapp.pl daemon
./myapp.pl daemon -m production -p -l http://*:8080
./myapp.pl daemon -l http://127.0.0.1:8080 -l https://[::]:8081
./myapp.pl daemon -l 'https://*:443?cert=./server.crt&key=./server.key'
./myapp.pl daemon -l http+unix://%2Ftmp%2Fmyapp.sock
./myapp.pl daemon -l http://127.0.0.1:8080 -p 127.0.0.0/8 -p fc00::/7

🎀 Options

every single one of them, no skipping, we don't gatekeep here 🫶

• -b, --backlog <size> — listen backlog size, defaults to SOMAXCONN
• -c, --clients <number> — maximum number of concurrent connections, defaults to 1000
• -h, --help — show this summary of available options
• --home <path> — path to the home directory of your application, defaults to the value of MOJO_HOME or auto-detection
• -i, --inactivity-timeout <seconds> — inactivity timeout, defaults to the value of MOJO_INACTIVITY_TIMEOUT or 30
• -k, --keep-alive-timeout <seconds> — keep-alive timeout, defaults to the value of MOJO_KEEP_ALIVE_TIMEOUT or 5
• -l, --listen <location> — one or more locations you want to listen on, defaults to the value of MOJO_LISTEN or "http://*:3000"
• -m, --mode <name> — operating mode for your application, defaults to the value of MOJO_MODE/PLACK_ENV or "development"
• -p, --proxy [<network>] — activate reverse proxy support, defaults to the value of MOJO_REVERSE_PROXY, optionally takes one or more trusted proxy addresses or networks
• -r, --requests <number> — maximum number of requests per keep-alive connection, defaults to 100

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Mojolicious::Command::daemon starts applications with the Mojo::Server::Daemon backend. that's her whole job and she ate 💅

she's a core command, which means she is literally always enabled — main character energy, she doesn't need permission ✨

and plot twist: her code is a genuinely good example for learning to build new commands, so you're welcome to fork it. go off, build your own 🧚

if you want the full roster of commands that are available by default, peep "COMMANDS" in Mojolicious::Commands.

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👑 ATTRIBUTES 👑

Mojolicious::Command::daemon inherits all attributes from Mojolicious::Command and implements the following new ones. she's got range 💜

description

my $description = $daemon->description;
$daemon         = $daemon->description('Foo');

short description of this command, used for the command list. it's giving name tag at a party 🎀

usage

my $usage = $daemon->usage;
$daemon   = $daemon->usage('Foo');

usage information for this command, used for the help screen. this is the one that shows up when someone asks "how do i even" 🌸

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🔥 METHODS 🔥

Mojolicious::Command::daemon inherits all methods from Mojolicious::Command and implements the following new ones. periodt 💅

build_server

my $server = $daemon->build_server(@ARGV);

build Mojo::Server::Daemon instance from command line arguments. it's giving construction era 🏗️✨

run

$daemon->run(@ARGV);

run this command. that's it, that's the whole method, she's efficient 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Mojolicious
• Mojolicious::Guides
• <https://mojolicious.org>

all three of them are linked at the top of the group chat, iykyk 💖

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ngl those URLs are the moment, go click them, they're not gonna click themselves bestie 🙈

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sign-off time: this whole page comes to you courtesy of perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-07-15 — and it lives under the name Mojolic...:daemon(3) 🎀 byeee, go daemon responsibly ⭐