'What causes Apache "Request body read timeout" errors?

The server is Apache/2.2.22 (Debian) and the browser is Firefox 30.0, but this is a general question. It refers to lines like this in /var/log/apache2/error.log:

[Fri Jun 20 17:42:16 2014] [info] [client 67.174.61.70] Request body read timeout
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Solution 1:[1]

I had the same problem with timeouts. As Luke mentioned on an earlier response, it is related with mod_reqtimeout configuration. In my case slow connections caused ssl handshake to fail...

I solved it by increasing the timeout for the header...

Solution

You just need to edit mods-enabled/reqtimeout.conf on the apache configuration folder

<IfModule reqtimeout_module>
      RequestReadTimeout header=60,minrate=500  
</IfModule>

(Increase the time after header to something long enough)

Note: If the conf file is not present on the dir, then the mod is not enabled, and this is not the solution for your problem.

Solution 2:[2]

For me it was mod_reqtimeout - this plugin sits there and checks that the request is coming in at an adequate rate and that the user isn't trying to perform a DOS attack. If it is an internal server you might want to just disable it if your having trouble.

If you are proxying I would also check the timeouts on mod_proxy. These can be set in the ProxyPass tag.

If this doesn't help, you might want to set your trace level to debug and review the error log.

Sources

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Solution Source
Solution 1 Alex Mantaut
Solution 2 Luke

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