diff --git a/lib/ulib/apache.tools b/lib/ulib/apache.tools
index a5b12d9..8445fcb 100644
--- a/lib/ulib/apache.tools
+++ b/lib/ulib/apache.tools
@@ -750,14 +750,15 @@ function apacheconfig_initvars() {
 
 function apacheconfig_loadconf() {
     local config modified
-    local destdir="$1"
+    local destdir="$1" autocreate
 
     __template_set_destdir destdir autocreate "$TEMPLATECTL_NAME" || return 1
     setx config=templatectl_config "$destdir"
     modified=
     templatectl_loadvars "$config" && modified=1
 
-    upvar config "$config"
+    upvars config "$config" modified "$modified" \
+           destdir "$destdir" autocreate "$autocreate"
 }
 
 function apacheconfig_sysinfos() {