diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix
index 3cf436419f34..dd471c9de40c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix
@@ -163,4 +163,8 @@ rec {
     inherit callPackage fetchFromGitHub passthruFun;
   };
 
+  luajit_openresty = import ../luajit/openresty.nix {
+    self = luajit_openresty;
+    inherit callPackage fetchFromGitHub passthruFun;
+  };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.0.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.0.nix
index daa298761762..78abb742c407 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.0.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.0.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 callPackage ./default.nix {
   version = "2.0.5-2022-09-13";
-  isStable = true;
+
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "LuaJIT";
     repo = "LuaJIT";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.1.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.1.nix
index 8362aab55e0f..8efb86ab0174 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.1.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/2.1.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 { self, callPackage, fetchFromGitHub, passthruFun }:
+
 callPackage ./default.nix {
   version = "2.1.0-2022-10-04";
-  isStable = false;
+
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "LuaJIT";
     repo = "LuaJIT";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix
index 64aa0345e80b..d1211ce0a928 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 , stdenv
 , fetchFromGitHub
 , buildPackages
-, isStable
 , version
 , src
 , extraMeta ? { }
@@ -71,7 +70,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     } >> src/luaconf.h
   '';
 
-  configurePhase = false;
+  dontConfigure = true;
 
   buildInputs = lib.optional enableValgrindSupport valgrind;
 
@@ -91,8 +90,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   postInstall = ''
     ( cd "$out/include"; ln -s luajit-*/* . )
     ln -s "$out"/bin/luajit-* "$out"/bin/lua
-  '' + lib.optionalString (!isStable) ''
-    ln -s "$out"/bin/luajit-* "$out"/bin/luajit
+    if [[ ! -e "$out"/bin/luajit ]]; then
+      ln -s "$out"/bin/luajit* "$out"/bin/luajit
+    fi
   '';
 
   LuaPathSearchPaths    = luaPackages.luaLib.luaPathList;
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "High-performance JIT compiler for Lua 5.1";
-    homepage = "http://luajit.org";
+    homepage = "https://luajit.org/";
     license = licenses.mit;
     platforms = platforms.linux ++ platforms.darwin;
     # See https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/issues/628
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/openresty.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/openresty.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..372d9233bf1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/luajit/openresty.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{ self, callPackage, fetchFromGitHub, passthruFun }:
+
+callPackage ./default.nix rec {
+  version = "2.1-20220915";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "openresty";
+    repo = "luajit2";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-kMHE4iQtm2CujK9TVut1jNhY2QxYP514jfBsxOCyd4s=";
+  };
+
+  inherit self passthruFun;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index cbee87b1a217..4ed086889bef 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -16015,7 +16015,7 @@ 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_2_1 luajit_2_0 luajit_openresty;
 
   lua5 = lua5_2_compat;
   lua = lua5;