diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix
index 30ab0311136..6408457e2a0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/lua-5/default.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "lua-5.1.2";
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/tarballs/lua-5.1.2.tar.gz;
+    url = http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.1.2.tar.gz;
     sha256 = "17ixifwgjva5592s2rn1ki56wa7hgw0z210r4bcx5lv8zv39iw2w";
   };
   buildFlags = "linux"; # TODO: support for non-linux systems