well don’t know what is going on but it is now working.
no go on that 🙁
here is what I put in the htaccess file:
ScriptAlias /awstats/ /home/blackdot/davidnewberger.com/awstats/cgi-bin/
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
/home/blackdot/davidnewberger.com/awstats/cgi-bin/awstats.pl