diff --git a/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/_internal/configurator.py b/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/_internal/configurator.py
index a70ab437b..80f91fbd2 100644
--- a/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/_internal/configurator.py
+++ b/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/_internal/configurator.py
@@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ class ApacheConfigurator(common.Installer):
         try:
             with open(ssl_module_location, mode="rb") as f:
                 contents = f.read()
-        except IOError:
+        except IOError as error:
+            logger.debug(str(error), exc_info=True)
             return None
         return contents
 
diff --git a/certbot-apache/tests/configurator_test.py b/certbot-apache/tests/configurator_test.py
index a9af7c443..e42f67e27 100644
--- a/certbot-apache/tests/configurator_test.py
+++ b/certbot-apache/tests/configurator_test.py
@@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@ class InstallSslOptionsConfTest(util.ApacheTest):
     def test_open_module_file(self):
         mock_open = mock.mock_open(read_data="testing 12 3")
         with mock.patch("six.moves.builtins.open", mock_open):
-            self.assertEqual (self.config._open_module_file("/nonsense/"), "testing 12 3")
+            self.assertEqual(self.config._open_module_file("/nonsense/"), "testing 12 3")
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()  # pragma: no cover