diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/9951-mod-php-identifier.yml b/changelogs/fragments/9951-mod-php-identifier.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..29d88091db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/9951-mod-php-identifier.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - apache2_module - added workaround for new PHP module name, from ``php7_module`` to ``php_module`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.general/pull/9951).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/apache2_module.py b/plugins/modules/apache2_module.py
index a9fd72b24f..cf11dc5014 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/apache2_module.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/apache2_module.py
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ def create_apache_identifier(name):
 
     # re expressions to extract subparts of names
     re_workarounds = [
+        ('php8', re.compile(r'^(php)[\d\.]+')),
         ('php', re.compile(r'^(php\d)\.')),
     ]