вот как я ставил на ubuntu 12.04:
сначала ставим LuaJIT 2.0
cd
git clone http://luajit.org/git/luajit-2.0.git
cd luajit-2.0
make
sudo make install
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libluajit-5.1.so.2.0.3 /usr/lib/libluajit-5.1.so.2
далее устанавливаем Lua
apt-get install -y lua5.1 liblua5.1-0 liblua5.1-0-dev
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.1.so /usr/lib/liblua.so
далее скачиваем ngx_devel_kit:
wget https://github.com/simpl/ngx_devel_kit/archive/v0.2.19.tar.gz
tar -xfz v0.2.19.tar.gz
далее скачиваем ngx_lua:
wget https://github.com/chaoslawful/lua-nginx-module/archive/v0.9.6.tar.gz
tar -xfz v0.9.6.tar.gz
далее качаем nginx
wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.4.7.tar.gz
tar -xfz nginx-1.4.7.tar.gz
cd nginx-1.4.7
и наконец собираем:
export LUAJIT_LIB=/usr/lib
export LUAJIT_INC=/home/ubuntu/luajit-2.0/src
./configure --prefix=/opt/nginx --conf-path=/opt/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --with-http_ssl_module --add-module=/home/ubuntu/lua-nginx-module-0.9.6 --add-module=/home/ubuntu/ngx_devel_kit-0.2.19
make -j2
make install
