diff --git a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
index 98947d70eaa4..7056d414e9e9 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ in
   nginx-pubhtml = handleTest ./nginx-pubhtml.nix {};
   nginx-sandbox = handleTestOn ["x86_64-linux"] ./nginx-sandbox.nix {};
   nginx-sso = handleTest ./nginx-sso.nix {};
+  nginx-variants = handleTest ./nginx-variants.nix {};
   nix-ssh-serve = handleTest ./nix-ssh-serve.nix {};
   nixos-generate-config = handleTest ./nixos-generate-config.nix {};
   novacomd = handleTestOn ["x86_64-linux"] ./novacomd.nix {};
diff --git a/nixos/tests/nginx-variants.nix b/nixos/tests/nginx-variants.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ca4655391bc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/tests/nginx-variants.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+{ system ? builtins.currentSystem,
+  config ? {},
+  pkgs ? import ../.. { inherit system config; }
+}:
+
+with import ../lib/testing-python.nix { inherit system pkgs; };
+
+builtins.listToAttrs (
+  builtins.map
+    (nginxName:
+      {
+        name = nginxName;
+        value = makeTest {
+          name = "nginx-variant-${nginxName}";
+
+          machine = { pkgs, ... }: {
+            services.nginx = {
+              enable = true;
+              virtualHosts.localhost.locations."/".return = "200 'foo'";
+              package = pkgs."${nginxName}";
+            };
+          };
+
+          testScript = ''
+            machine.wait_for_unit("nginx")
+            machine.wait_for_open_port(80)
+            machine.succeed('test "$(curl -fvvv http://localhost/)" = foo')
+          '';
+        };
+      }
+    )
+    [ "nginxStable" "nginxUnstable" "nginxShibboleth" "openresty" "tengine" ]
+)
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/generic.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/generic.nix
index 80bc1458ad7a..6ec5b0a78510 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/generic.nix
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 , withDebug ? false
 , withStream ? true
 , withMail ? false
+, withPerl ? true
 , modules ? []
 , ...
 }:
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   ] ++ optionals withMail [
     "--with-mail"
     "--with-mail_ssl_module"
-  ] ++ optional (perl != null) [
+  ] ++ optionals withPerl [
     "--with-http_perl_module"
     "--with-perl=${perl}/bin/perl"
     "--with-perl_modules_path=lib/perl5"
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/openresty/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/openresty/default.nix
index 9c01cfb19e1d..d845d92ec8a5 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/openresty/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/openresty/default.nix
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ callPackage ../nginx/generic.nix args rec {
   postInstall = ''
     ln -s $out/luajit/bin/luajit-2.1.0-beta3 $out/bin/luajit-openresty
     ln -s $out/nginx/sbin/nginx $out/bin/nginx
+    ln -s $out/nginx/conf $out/conf
+    ln -s $out/nginx/html $out/html
   '';
 
   meta = {
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 14a494a164f5..e31c42261e72 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -15927,14 +15927,14 @@ in
   nginx = nginxStable;
 
   nginxStable = callPackage ../servers/http/nginx/stable.nix {
-    perl = null;
+    withPerl = false;
     # We don't use `with` statement here on purpose!
     # See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/10474/files#r42369334
     modules = [ nginxModules.rtmp nginxModules.dav nginxModules.moreheaders ];
   };
 
   nginxMainline = callPackage ../servers/http/nginx/mainline.nix {
-    perl = null;
+    withPerl = false;
     # We don't use `with` statement here on purpose!
     # See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/10474/files#r42369334
     modules = [ nginxModules.dav nginxModules.moreheaders ];
@@ -15964,7 +15964,9 @@ in
   openafs = callPackage ../servers/openafs/1.6 { tsmbac = null; ncurses = null; };
   openafs_1_8 = callPackage ../servers/openafs/1.8 { tsmbac = null; ncurses = null; };
 
-  openresty = callPackage ../servers/http/openresty { };
+  openresty = callPackage ../servers/http/openresty {
+    withPerl = false;
+  };
 
   opensmtpd = callPackage ../servers/mail/opensmtpd { };
   opensmtpd-extras = callPackage ../servers/mail/opensmtpd/extras.nix { };