Configuration issue adding AWStat to Apache v2.2

Question

I'm trying to add AWStats to my working Apache website. But when I go to my perl script it fails:

http://localhost/awstats/awstats.pl?config=my.domain.here

I get this error 500 in the browser:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

I have the following error log entries

[Mon Feb 01 19:59:48 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified.  : couldn't create child process: 720002: awstats.pl
[Mon Feb 01 19:59:48 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (OS 2)The system cannot find the file specified.  : couldn't spawn child process: C:/Program Files/AWStats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl

I thought it was maybe due to cgi not being enabled, so I added this to my config file:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/Program Files/AWStats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/"

<Directory "C:/Program Files/AWStats/wwwroot/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

But that didn't seem to help. Note that AWStats inserted the following at the end of the config file:

Alias /awstatsclasses "C:/Program Files/AWStats/wwwroot/classes/"
Alias /awstatscss "C:/Program Files/AWStats/wwwroot/css/"
Alias /awstatsicons "C:/Program Files/AWStats/wwwroot/icon/"
ScriptAlias /awstats/ "C:/Program Files/AWStats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/"

Note that localhost seems to go to my first virtual entry:

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\myDomain"
ServerName my.domain.here
Redirect /index.html http://my.domain.here/myDirectory

Please suggest what might be going wrong.

Thanks.

Solution 1

Have you got Perl installed? AFAIK ActivePerl is the one everyone uses.

Solution 2

I had to do the following additional things to get this working:

1) Activate CGI by adding to my Apache httpd.conf file the following options:

Options ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

2) Edit my Perl scripts to replace the default location of #!/usr/bin/perl with the one for my windows perl install: #!c:/Perl/bin/perl.exe

Then it worked!

Comments

[reitermarkus]

Yes, AWState refuses to install unless Perl is first installed.