diff --git a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/configurator.py b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/configurator.py
index 4066d6264..47d238140 100644
--- a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/configurator.py
+++ b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/configurator.py
@@ -158,6 +158,12 @@ class ApacheConfigurator(augeas_configurator.AugeasConfigurator):
             raise errors.NotSupportedError(
                 "Apache Version %s not supported.", str(self.version))
 
+        if not self._check_aug_version():
+            raise errors.NotSupportedError(
+                "Apache plugin support requires libaugeas0 and augeas-lenses "
+                "version 1.2.0 or higher, please make sure you have you have "
+                "those installed.")
+
         self.parser = parser.ApacheParser(
             self.aug, self.conf("server-root"), self.conf("vhost-root"),
             self.version)
@@ -169,6 +175,21 @@ class ApacheConfigurator(augeas_configurator.AugeasConfigurator):
 
         install_ssl_options_conf(self.mod_ssl_conf)
 
+    def _check_aug_version(self):
+        """ Checks that we have recent enough version of libaugeas.
+        If augeas version is recent enough, it will support case insensitive
+        regexp matching"""
+
+        self.aug.set("/test/path/testing/arg", "aRgUMeNT")
+        try:
+            matches = self.aug.match(
+                "/test//*[self::arg=~regexp('argument', 'i')]")
+        except RuntimeError:
+            self.aug.remove("/test/path")
+            return False
+        self.aug.remove("/test/path")
+        return matches
+
     def deploy_cert(self, domain, cert_path, key_path,
                     chain_path=None, fullchain_path=None):  # pylint: disable=unused-argument
         """Deploys certificate to specified virtual host.
diff --git a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/tests/configurator_test.py b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/tests/configurator_test.py
index 113b3b2b2..2a32b04be 100644
--- a/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/tests/configurator_test.py
+++ b/letsencrypt-apache/letsencrypt_apache/tests/configurator_test.py
@@ -65,6 +65,15 @@ class TwoVhost80Test(util.ApacheTest):
         self.assertRaises(
             errors.NotSupportedError, self.config.prepare)
 
+    @mock.patch("letsencrypt_apache.parser.ApacheParser")
+    @mock.patch("letsencrypt_apache.configurator.le_util.exe_exists")
+    def test_prepare_old_aug(self, mock_exe_exists, _):
+        mock_exe_exists.return_value = True
+        self.config.config_test = mock.Mock()
+        self.config._check_aug_version = mock.Mock(return_value=False) # pylint: disable=protected-access
+        self.assertRaises(
+            errors.NotSupportedError, self.config.prepare)
+
     def test_add_parser_arguments(self):  # pylint: disable=no-self-use
         from letsencrypt_apache.configurator import ApacheConfigurator
         # Weak test..
@@ -978,6 +987,13 @@ class TwoVhost80Test(util.ApacheTest):
         self.assertTrue(self.config.parser.find_dir(
             "NameVirtualHost", "*:443", exclude=False))
 
+    def test_aug_version(self):
+        mock_match = mock.Mock(return_value=["something"])
+        self.config.aug.match = mock_match
+        self.assertEquals(self.config._check_aug_version(), ["something"]) # pylint: disable=protected-access
+        self.config.aug.match.side_effect = RuntimeError
+        self.assertFalse(self.config._check_aug_version()) # pylint: disable=protected-access
+
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()  # pragma: no cover