diff --git a/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/_internal/configurator.py b/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/_internal/configurator.py
index 80f91fbd2..0c243a1cf 100644
--- a/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/_internal/configurator.py
+++ b/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/_internal/configurator.py
@@ -1290,6 +1290,7 @@ class ApacheConfigurator(common.Installer):
                 self.enable_mod("socache_shmcb", temp=temp)
             if "ssl_module" not in self.parser.modules:
                 self.enable_mod("ssl", temp=temp)
+                self.parser.aug.load()
                 self.parser.reset_modules() # Reset to load the new ssl_module path
                 # Call again because now we can gate on openssl version
                 self.install_ssl_options_conf(self.mod_ssl_conf,