First run

In order to compute everything, run the cron-w3perl.pl script with the -a flag. Run 'cron-w3perl.pl -h' to view what options are available to you.
Don't launch all scripts together to avoid overloading your server.
You can use the administration interface to launch the scripts except if you don't have access to cgi or a crontab.

Just run cron-hour.pl to check no error is reported. Use the -c flag to load a specific configuration file if you are not using the default one config.pl
Then run cron-pages.pl using a small logfile to avoid a long wait. (or you can specify a short date intervalle with the cron-pages option available : see cron-pages.pl -h for help).

Update your config.pl file to change value, add directories, unselect hosts....and rerun cron-pages.pl.
When your tunning is fine, you are ready to compute all your stats with cron-w3perl.pl script with the following command 'cron-w3perl.pl -a'. If you want to modify your configuration file later, you'll need to rerun cron-pages (except if you change only data which affect graphical ouput)!

To initialize the stats, run the cron-w3perl.pl script with the -a flag. It will launch the following stats :

cron-url.pl	Will map URL to title
cron-pages.pl	Will conpute the main stats
...	Will conpute others stats
cron-pages.pl -u	Will update your stats homepage

To update all your stats, best is to run the cron-w3perl.pl script with the -e flag during the second half of the night, it will only update stats. As you don't have to run all scripts every day, ie. monthly stats can be computed only the first day of each month or document stats (cron-url.pl) can be launch only once a week if you don't update your web everyday, you can edit the cron-w3perl.pl script and choose which stats you want to update and how often. But default should please most users.

The best way to update stats s to use a crontab . But update can be made also from the web administration interface to compute only parts of your stats/