diff --git a/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/tests/apache-conf-files/apache-conf-test b/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/tests/apache-conf-files/apache-conf-test
index e0715a46b..dcbba9d3e 100755
--- a/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/tests/apache-conf-files/apache-conf-test
+++ b/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/tests/apache-conf-files/apache-conf-test
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ function Cleanup() {
 
 # if our environment asks us to enable modules, do our best!
 if [ "$1" = --debian-modules ] ; then
+    sudo apt-get install -y apache2
     sudo apt-get install -y libapache2-mod-wsgi
     sudo apt-get install -y libapache2-mod-macro