diff --git a/package/apache/Config.in b/package/apache/Config.in
index 0814a17f7e..511876d2eb 100644
--- a/package/apache/Config.in
+++ b/package/apache/Config.in
@@ -14,6 +14,34 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_APACHE
 
 	  http://httpd.apache.org
 
+if BR2_PACKAGE_APACHE
+
+choice
+	prompt "Multi-Processing Module (MPM)"
+	default BR2_PACKAGE_APACHE_MPM_WORKER
+	help
+	  Select the Multi-Processing Module (MPM).
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_APACHE_MPM_EVENT
+	bool "event"
+	help
+	  A variant of the worker MPM with the goal of consuming threads
+	  only for connections with active processing
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_APACHE_MPM_PREFORK
+	bool "prefork"
+	help
+	  Implements a non-threaded, pre-forking web server
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_APACHE_MPM_WORKER
+	bool "worker"
+	help
+	  Implements a hybrid multi-threaded multi-process web server
+
+endchoice
+
+endif
+
 comment "apache needs a toolchain w/ dynamic library, threads"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
 	depends on BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
diff --git a/package/apache/apache.mk b/package/apache/apache.mk
index e78545a076..e54b736090 100644
--- a/package/apache/apache.mk
+++ b/package/apache/apache.mk
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ APACHE_CONF_ENV= \
 	ap_cv_void_ptr_lt_long=no \
 	PCRE_CONFIG=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin/pcre-config
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_APACHE_MPM_EVENT),y)
+APACHE_MPM = event
+else ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_APACHE_MPM_PREFORK),y)
+APACHE_MPM = prefork
+else ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_APACHE_MPM_WORKER),y)
+APACHE_MPM = worker
+endif
+
 APACHE_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--sysconfdir=/etc/apache2 \
 	--with-apr=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr \
@@ -31,7 +39,7 @@ APACHE_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--enable-mime-magic \
 	--without-suexec-bin \
 	--enable-mods-shared=all \
-	--with-mpm=worker \
+	--with-mpm=$(APACHE_MPM) \
 	--disable-lua \
 	--disable-luajit