diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/modules.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/modules.nix
index a1e9eabdb3d9..2ab05dc6c61a 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/modules.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/modules.nix
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 , libuuid
 , libxml2
 , lmdb
-, luajit
+, luajit_openresty
 , msgpuck
 , openssl
 , opentracing-cpp
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ let self = {
       sha256 = "sha256-TyeTL7/0dI2wS2eACS4sI+9tu7UpDq09aemMaklkUss=";
     };
 
-    inputs = [ luajit ];
+    inputs = [ luajit_openresty ];
 
     preConfigure = let
       # fix compilation against nginx 1.23.0
@@ -388,8 +388,8 @@ let self = {
         sha256 = "sha256-l7GHFNZXg+RG2SIBjYJO1JHdGUtthWnzLIqEORJUNr4=";
       };
     in ''
-      export LUAJIT_LIB="${luajit}/lib"
-      export LUAJIT_INC="$(realpath ${luajit}/include/luajit-*)"
+      export LUAJIT_LIB="${luajit_openresty}/lib"
+      export LUAJIT_INC="$(realpath ${luajit_openresty}/include/luajit-*)"
 
       # make source directory writable to allow generating src/ngx_http_lua_autoconf.h
       lua_src=$TMPDIR/lua-src
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ let self = {
       sha256 = "1gqccg8airli3i9103zv1zfwbjm27h235qjabfbfqk503rjamkpk";
     };
 
-    inputs = [ luajit ];
+    inputs = [ luajit_openresty ];
     allowMemoryWriteExecute = true;
 
     meta = with lib; {