diff --git a/apache2.changes b/apache2.changes
index 7da864a..468be06 100644
--- a/apache2.changes
+++ b/apache2.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Oct  1 13:38:05 UTC 2018 - Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.com>
+
+- consider also patterns in APACHE_CONF_INCLUDE_DIRS as documentation
+  says (patch Juergen Gleiss)
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Sep 27 10:25:40 UTC 2018 - Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/start_apache2 b/start_apache2
index 6907c62..af4dc61 100644
--- a/start_apache2
+++ b/start_apache2
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ done
 # APACHE_CONF_INCLUDE_DIRS -> include.conf
 for dir in $APACHE_CONF_INCLUDE_DIRS; do
     test ${dir:0:1} = / || dir=/etc/apache2/$dir
-    if [ ! -e $dir ]; then
+    if  ! ( [ -e $dir ] || [ -e ${dir%/*} ] ); then
       continue
     fi
     echo "Include $dir" >> ${sysconfd_dir}/include.conf