I have installed AWStats version 7.6 on a Debian 10 Linux VM. I can run
awstats.pl with perl from the command line. Perl is version 5.28.1

When I use the recommended Browser URL after enabling the recommended
options in the /etc/awstats/awstats.<website>.conf file to permit this, the
result is to display or list the contents of the awstats.pl file. It does
not execute awstats.pl, which is clearly marked as executable as
demonstrated above.</website>

I use this URL: https://<website>/cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=<website></website></website>

I use the Bitnami LAMP stack, Apache v2.4.52, PHP v7.4.27. I have modified
the Apache httpd.conf to permit CGI and with the recommended ScriptAlias to
the AWstats script in /usr/lib/cgi-bin/.

apachectl -M | grep cgi
yields: proxy-fcgi_module (shared)

so CGI is enabled as well.

Any ideas? I'm running out of diagnostic ideas here.

Thanks - Frank

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Frank Kyosho Fallon
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