**These steps were done on CentOS 6 Server

Step 1: Upgrade Apache HTTP to the latest version

# yum update httpd

Step 2: Edit the httpd.conf.

# vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Inside httpd.conf. Scroll all the way to LoadModule………. section and add the line

LoadModule reqtimeout_module modules/mod_reqtimeout.so

Step 3: Create a /etc/httpd/conf.d/reqtimeout.conf and put in the informationbelow

<ifmodule reqtimeout_module>
RequestReadTimeout header=10-20,minrate=500
RequestReadTimeout body=10,minrate=500
</ifmodule>

Step 4: To check whether the apache module is loaded, do

# apachectl -M

Or

apache2ctl -M

References:

1. Mitigating WAS QID 150085 Slow HTTP POST Vulnerability on Apache