Oh true, but it was only with the 1.30->1.32 update that it got flagged. There have been quite a few updates since 2011. For me it is happily solved and the wiki back.

Yes, thank you, editing the two awstats external links in the db to remove the forward slashes (and the previous UPDATE fix) permitted a successful update to 1.32. :)

It appears awstats uses backslashes as delimiters? I'm not entirely sure.

Thank you for the quick response. The trailing comma was at fault. I edited that out and ran into a different error and in my uncertainty, returned it and tried it again. My bad. The diff as provided by @9st is the correct syntax. However, after running php update I got the error that incorrectly convinced me the comma might be needed:

@jcrespo thanks for this but when I made the change suggested to line 76 and ran, I got the following error:

My wiki is down pending this fix, I'm happy to test any patches or to provide any other assistance.