diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix
index 3e36f77dab43..f2b2961c4c77 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix
@@ -54,4 +54,9 @@ rec {
     inherit callPackage;
   };
 
+  luajit_openresty = import ../luajit/openresty.nix {
+    self = luajit_openresty;
+    inherit callPackage;
+  };
+
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.0.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.0.nix
index 153b11aaa5fc..ceb796f0433e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.0.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 { self, callPackage, lib }:
 callPackage ./default.nix {
   inherit self;
+  owner = "LuaJIT";
+  repo = "LuaJIT";
   version = "2.0.5-2021-06-08";
   rev = "98f95f69180d48ce49289d6428b46a9ccdd67a46";
   isStable = true;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.1.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.1.nix
index d11514c07c62..87976a45dfe1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.1.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.1.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 { self, callPackage }:
 callPackage ./default.nix {
   inherit self;
+  owner = "LuaJIT";
+  repo = "LuaJIT";
   version = "2.1.0-2021-06-25";
   rev = "e957737650e060d5bf1c2909b741cc3dffe073ac";
   isStable = false;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix
index 860642b0fd2f..728161598282 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 { lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildPackages
 , name ? "luajit-${version}"
 , isStable
+, owner
+, repo
 , sha256
 , rev
 , version
@@ -41,9 +43,7 @@ in
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   inherit name version;
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner  = "LuaJIT";
-    repo   = "LuaJIT";
-    inherit sha256 rev;
+    inherit owner repo sha256 rev;
   };
 
   luaversion = "5.1";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/openresty.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/openresty.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..78e06f46f1d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/openresty.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+{ self, callPackage }:
+callPackage ./default.nix rec {
+  inherit self;
+  owner = "openresty";
+  repo = "luajit2";
+  version = "2.1-20210510";
+  rev = "v${version}";
+  isStable = true;
+  sha256 = "1h21w5axwka2j9jb86yc69qrprcavccyr2qihiw4b76r1zxzalvd";
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 0c530a38ae0a..58340229fb4b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12663,7 +12663,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   ### LUA interpreters
   luaInterpreters = callPackage ./../development/interpreters/lua-5 {};
-  inherit (luaInterpreters) lua5_1 lua5_2 lua5_2_compat lua5_3 lua5_3_compat lua5_4 lua5_4_compat luajit_2_1 luajit_2_0;
+  inherit (luaInterpreters) lua5_1 lua5_2 lua5_2_compat lua5_3 lua5_3_compat lua5_4 lua5_4_compat luajit_openresty luajit_2_1 luajit_2_0;
 
   lua5 = lua5_2_compat;
   lua = lua5;