Installation

You first need to install the Fly package which will compute graphics for w3perl. Then installation is just a matter of editing three lines of one file and using the administration interface to customize your output.


NT
The installation have been greatly enhanced. The files are installed with the Ghost Installer application.
Please read this new manual for full instructions.

Unix
Fly

1 - Download the Fly package from Australia or from a mirror site in USA (source and binary both available). Use version 1.6.5 and not the latest 2.0.0 as GIF support have been removed by the author.

2 - Extract the files (tar -xzvf fly.tgz on Unix)

3 - Compile the package or use the binary files.

W3Perl

I've find four different ways to install the package :

  Telnet Cgi-bin Crontab
FTP No Yes Option
User Yes No Option
Webmaster Yes Yes Yes
RPM Yes Yes Yes

Installation can be split into five different parts :

    1 - Installation of the files

The package should be installed inside the server root. Default installation will create a subdirectory /w3perl/ inside your cgi-bin directory. You'll have the edit the first three lines of one script and run it.
Ensure that /resources/admin/ and /config/ are writable by the server if you want to use the adminstration interface, they should have world permission (chmod 777).

    2 - Making configuration file

The package need a configuration file to load. This file have informations about the stats options you need to customize the output.
Configuration files can be made via an administration interface or by hand if you don't have access to a cgi-bin directory.

    3 - Initialisation

Launch some scripts to check your configuration file and make some test output. All stats can be done by only one script if you are on a Unix server.

    4 - Crontab use

Add an entry in your crontab to compute stats each night. All you need to do later is to watch the results in your browser each morning !

    5 - Greetings

At last, please tell me you're using w3perl. When you let me know you are using w3perl, you help me justify the time spent in maintaining and improving it. If the results are publicly visible on the web, a URL is a wonderful thing to receive, but if it's not a publicly visible project, a simple note is just as welcome.


See the FAQ and bug report if something's wrong.
If you have any trouble when installing the package, send me an email about what's wrong. Try to be as much precise as you can.

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