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Welcome to the Mojolicious wiki!

These pages contain documentation from users, for users. Become part of the project and contribute new documentation wherever you can. Don't forget to check out the official tutorial and guides if you haven't already - they may answer most of your questions!

Starting point

The best point to start on working with Mojolicious is by reading the official Mojolicious::Lite tutorial. If you are new to Perl, see the introduction of the official Mojolicious documentation.

Development

Installation

• Installation of Mojolicious
• Installation of newer versions of Perl
• Installation of HTTPS support
• Installation of FastCGI support

Plugins

• Plugins on CPAN

Routes

• Read the official Routing Guide!
• Routes for non lite apps

Controllers

• Request data - accessing POST and GET parameters

Templates

• Read the official Rendering Guide!
• Working with the templating system
• Recipes for templates
• Working with helpers
• Form Data Validation

Databases

Mojolicious is database agnostic. You are free to choose the way you want to store your data.

• Database support
• SQLite
• MySQL, even non-blocking
• ORMs for Mojolicious, for example ORLite
• CouchDB and Mojo::UserAgent
• MongoDB
• Using Redis as a key/value store, both blocking and non-blocking.

Miscellaneous

• How to work with UTF-8?
• How to change the Character set in Mojolicious?
• How to use logrotation with Mojolicious?
• How to port CGI applications to Mojolicious?

IDE/Editor support

There is documented support for Mojolicious for TextMate, Vim, Sublime Text 2, jEdit, Padre (The Perl IDE), and Perl::Tidy.

Deployment

• Read the official Cookbook on deployment!

Server environments

• Deploying on Apache
• Deploying on Lighttpd with FastCGI
• Using the Hypnotoad Prefork Web Server

Services

• Mojolicious on Heroku (free service) in one easy step - mojo deploy heroku
• Mojolicious on Dreamhost using FastCGI
• Mojolicious on Uberspace using Hypnotoad

Distribution

• Portable Web Application
• App Installation using Module::Build

Example-Applications

• Websocket chat
• Example applications

Users

• Projects and Companies using Mojolicious

Support and Contribution

Support

• Official Homepage
• Official Mailing-List
• IRC-Channel #mojo on irc.perl.org
• Twitter account of the main developer
• CPAN

Documentation translation

• Japanese

Contribution

You can fork Mojolicious on GitHub and contribute patches to the code. Please follow the Coding Guidelines in these cases! Bug reports and feature requests can be send as issues on GitHub. If you have new awesome features in mind, it's a good idea to discuss them in the IRC channel before you start coding!