diff --git a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/configurator.py b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/configurator.py
index 91aa02aef..de69af91c 100644
--- a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/configurator.py
+++ b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/configurator.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 """Apache Configuration based off of Augeas Configurator."""
 # pylint: disable=too-many-lines
+import filecmp
 import itertools
 import logging
 import os
@@ -946,9 +947,11 @@ class ApacheConfigurator(augeas_configurator.AugeasConfigurator):
         """
         enabled_dir = os.path.join(self.parser.root, "sites-enabled")
         for entry in os.listdir(enabled_dir):
-            if os.path.realpath(os.path.join(enabled_dir, entry)) == avail_fp:
-                return True
-
+            try:
+                if filecmp.cmp(avail_fp, os.path.join(enabled_dir, entry)):
+                    return True
+            except OSError:
+                pass
         return False
 
     def enable_site(self, vhost):
diff --git a/tools/dev-release.sh b/tools/dev-release.sh
index d93a6d21f..cebe5001c 100755
--- a/tools/dev-release.sh
+++ b/tools/dev-release.sh
@@ -88,8 +88,7 @@ mkdir ../kgs
 kgs="../kgs/$version"
 pip freeze | tee $kgs
 pip install nose
-# TODO: letsencrypt_apache fails due to symlink, c.f. #838
-nosetests letsencrypt $SUBPKGS || true
+nosetests letsencrypt $SUBPKGS
 
 echo "New root: $root"
 echo "KGS is at $root/kgs"