diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 474a3a9d..dd210c31 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ install:
   - cpanm --notest Device::SerialPort
   - cpanm --notest FCGI::Client
   - cpanm --notest File::ReadBackwards
-  - cpanm --notest File::Tail::Multi
   - cpanm --notest Graphics::ColorObject
   - cpanm --notest IPC::Run3
   - cpanm --notest IPC::ShareLite
@@ -55,6 +54,7 @@ install:
   # - Sys::Virt version matching the test system's libvirt-dev
   - cpanm --notest DANBERR/Sys-Virt-0.9.8.tar.gz
   # Modules used by plugins, but missing on cpan
+  # - File::Tail::Multi
   # - Sun::Solaris::Kstat
   # - VMware::VIRuntime
   # - MythTV
diff --git a/plugins/apache/apache_vhosts/apache_logparser b/plugins/apache/apache_vhosts/apache_logparser
index 434ea0f9..1f427b5e 100644
--- a/plugins/apache/apache_vhosts/apache_logparser
+++ b/plugins/apache/apache_vhosts/apache_logparser
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ $statefile	file to save last log position for tail
 $nsec		tail and write to shared mem every n seconds
 $debug		dump tallied data every n seconds, print every log line parsed
 $scan_interval	rescan for new log files every n minutes
-$type		log file type:
-                common: CLF + vhost + time + (other fields)
-                combined: combined + time + (other fields)
 =cut
 
 # config
@@ -38,14 +35,15 @@ my $files = "*access_log";
 my $site = "(.*)-access_log";
 my $statefile = "/tmp/logstate";
 `touch $statefile` unless (-f $statefile);
-local $type="combined";
 local $nsec=7;
 local $debug=0;
 
 my $scan_interval=5; # minutes
 
 # perl modules
-use File::Tail::Multi;
+# "File:Tail:Multi" disappeared from CPAN (somewhen in 2016) - thus it needs
+# to be imported carefully (for travis checks).
+eval 'use File::Tail::Multi; 1;' or die 'Please install File::Tail::Multi';
 use Storable qw(freeze thaw);
 use List::Util qw(min max);
 use IPC::ShareLite ':lock';
@@ -167,7 +165,7 @@ while (1) {
                 $old{$vpm}{'max_bytes'}=max($old{$vpm}{'max_bytes'},$temp{$vpm}{'max_bytes'}) || 0;
 
                 # reset local counters
-                foreach my $check qw(requests bytes time max_bytes avg_bytes max_time avg_time) {
+                foreach my $check (qw(requests bytes time max_bytes avg_bytes max_time avg_time)) {
                         $temp{$vpm}{$check}=0;
                 }