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You don't have any access to a cgi-bin directory on your host but would like to have a stats report. No problem, the scripts don't need to be installed in the cgi-bin directory. Some features like the administration interface are not available to you but everything can be done by hand (only once, don't worry !). I supposed you have a telnet access, if not go to the Provider Installation section.
W3Perl installation directory

 Without 
 CGI 

1.1 - Download the W3Perl package on your own host.

1.2 - Uncompress the package where you want and extract all the files. It will create a /w3perl/ directory where all the files are stored.

1.3 - Edit the first line of install.pl to reflect the Perl location on your host.
Modify also $pathcgi and $pathw3perl to the location of your /w3perl/ directory (both values should be the same)

1.4 - Launch install.pl.

1.5 - Edit the config.pl file and customize it as your wishes. The output directory can be whatever you want, it should only belong to you.
(in /config/ you'll be able to find few examples of config files).

1.6 - Launch the script cron-w3perl.pl with the -a flag 'cron-w3perl.pl -a'

1.7 - Run your favourite browser and select the 'open file' option to load the main index.html file in the output directory.

1.8 - If everything is right, edit cron-w3perl.pl, choose when you want to launch the different scripts and finally add it in your crontab. With the -e flag, cron-w3perl will only update stats.


 Without 
 crontab 

Some sysadmin don't allow you to use a crontab to launch scripts to avoid excessive CPU usage.
You could either use the web administration if you have a cgi directory or manually update the stats with the 'cron-w3perl.pl -e' command.


 Hints 

1 - Read carefully the documentation. Many questions are answered in the files provided, use also the -h flag for more informations for each script.

2 - You can build as many configuration files you need. Just use the -c flag to load them