diff --git a/letsencrypt-compatibility-test/letsencrypt_compatibility_test/configurators/apache/a2enmod.sh b/letsencrypt-compatibility-test/letsencrypt_compatibility_test/configurators/apache/a2enmod.sh
index f822a1f7b..4da9288a2 100755
--- a/letsencrypt-compatibility-test/letsencrypt_compatibility_test/configurators/apache/a2enmod.sh
+++ b/letsencrypt-compatibility-test/letsencrypt_compatibility_test/configurators/apache/a2enmod.sh
@@ -1,33 +1,18 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # An extremely simplified version of `a2enmod` for enabling modules in the
-# httpd docker image. First argument is the server_root and the second is the
-# module to be enabled.
+# httpd docker image. First argument is the Apache ServerRoot which should be
+# an absolute path. The second is the module to be enabled, such as `ssl`.
 
-APACHE_CONFDIR=$1
+confdir=$1
+module=$2
 
-enable () {
-    echo "LoadModule "$1"_module /usr/local/apache2/modules/mod_"$1".so" >> \
-        $APACHE_CONFDIR"/test.conf"
-    available_base="/mods-available/"$1".conf"
-    available_conf=$APACHE_CONFDIR$available_base
-    enabled_dir=$APACHE_CONFDIR"/mods-enabled"
-    enabled_conf=$enabled_dir"/"$1".conf"
-    if [ -e "$available_conf" -a -d "$enabled_dir" -a ! -e "$enabled_conf" ]
-    then
-        ln -s "..$available_base" $enabled_conf
-    fi
-}
-
-if [ $2 == "ssl" ]
+echo "LoadModule ${module}_module " \
+    "/usr/local/apache2/modules/mod_${module}.so" >> "${confdir}/test.conf"
+availbase="/mods-available/${module}.conf"
+availconf=$confdir$availbase
+enabldir="$confdir/mods-enabled"
+enablconf="$enabldir/${module}.conf"
+if [ -e $availconf -a -d $enabldir -a ! -e $enablconf ]
 then
-    # Enables ssl and all its dependencies
-    enable "setenvif"
-    enable "mime"
-    enable "socache_shmcb"
-    enable "ssl"
-elif [ $2 == "rewrite" ]
-then
-    enable "rewrite"
-else
-    exit 1
+    ln -s "..$availbase" $enablconf
 fi
diff --git a/letsencrypt-compatibility-test/letsencrypt_compatibility_test/util.py b/letsencrypt-compatibility-test/letsencrypt_compatibility_test/util.py
index 6181da16b..43070cf03 100644
--- a/letsencrypt-compatibility-test/letsencrypt_compatibility_test/util.py
+++ b/letsencrypt-compatibility-test/letsencrypt_compatibility_test/util.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def create_le_config(parent_dir):
 
 def extract_configs(configs, parent_dir):
     """Extracts configs to a new dir under parent_dir and returns it"""
-    config_dir = os.path.join(parent_dir, "renewal")
+    config_dir = os.path.join(parent_dir, "configs")
 
     if os.path.isdir(configs):
         shutil.copytree(configs, config_dir, symlinks=True)
diff --git a/letsencrypt/constants.py b/letsencrypt/constants.py
index 762409d25..362009ec6 100644
--- a/letsencrypt/constants.py
+++ b/letsencrypt/constants.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ CLI_DEFAULTS = dict(
 
     auth_cert_path="./cert.pem",
     auth_chain_path="./chain.pem",
+    strict_permissions=False,
 )
 """Defaults for CLI flags and `.IConfig` attributes."""