diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix b/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix
index 05b2c7fb9bd..80916909771 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/fetchurl/mirrors.nix
@@ -220,4 +220,12 @@ rec {
     http://ftp.x.org/pub/ # often incomplete (e.g. files missing from X.org 7.4)
   ];
 
+  # Apache mirrors.
+  apache = [
+    http://apache.cs.uu.nl/dist/
+    http://www.eu.apache.org/dist/
+    http://www.apache.org/dist/
+    http://archive.apache.org/dist/ # fallback for old releases
+  ];
+
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/apache-httpd/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/apache-httpd/default.nix
index b2c59b6cc7e..a4a76f9b4cb 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/apache-httpd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/apache-httpd/default.nix
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "apache-httpd-2.2.9";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.9.tar.bz2;
+    url = mirror://apache/httpd/httpd-2.2.9.tar.bz2;
     md5 = "3afa8137dc1999be695a20b62fdf032b";
   };