diff --git a/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/constants.py b/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/constants.py
index 001ef1caa..ba545c613 100644
--- a/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/constants.py
+++ b/certbot-apache/certbot_apache/constants.py
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ CLI_DEFAULTS_SUSE = dict(
     enmod="a2enmod",
     dismod="a2dismod",
     le_vhost_ext="-le-ssl.conf",
-    handle_mods=True,
+    handle_mods=False,
     handle_sites=False,
     challenge_location="/etc/apache2/vhosts.d",
     MOD_SSL_CONF_SRC=pkg_resources.resource_filename(