Comment 4 for bug 1181790

I've just experienced this same problem; awstats was correctly looking at my conf file /etc/awstats/awstats.my.domain.conf and then it stopped working -- turning on -debug=2 (easier than strace!) shows that awstats started looking in /usr/lib/cgi-bin for the conf file. I'd changed various things about my awstats conf, so I don't know what I did that tripped the problem. I have worked around it by explicitly specifying the whole path to the conf file, so "awstats -config /etc/awstats/awstats.my.domain.conf -update", which works. Quite why "-config my.domain" now does not work is baffling. I can confirm that the problem is not about user permissions on files: awstats is explicitly looking in /usr/lib/cgi-bin for conf files, and I run the command as root.