diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/nginx/default.nix b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/nginx/default.nix
index 1c9fbe048f8..e577e8a5012 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/nginx/default.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/nginx/default.nix
@@ -44,19 +44,7 @@ let
     }
   ''));
 
-  awkFormat = builtins.toFile "awkFormat-nginx.awk" ''
-    awk -f
-    {sub(/^[ \t]+/,"");idx=0}
-    /\{/{ctx++;idx=1}
-    /\}/{ctx--}
-    {id="";for(i=idx;i<ctx;i++)id=sprintf("%s%s", id, "\t");printf "%s%s\n", id, $0}
-  '';
-
-  configFile = pkgs.runCommand "nginx.conf" {} (''
-    awk -f ${awkFormat} ${pre-configFile} | sed '/^\s*$/d' > $out
-  '');
-
-  pre-configFile = pkgs.writeText "pre-nginx.conf" ''
+  configFile = pkgs.writers.writeNginxConfig "nginx.conf" ''
     user ${cfg.user} ${cfg.group};
     error_log ${cfg.logError};
     daemon off;
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/nginx-config-formatter/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/nginx-config-formatter/default.nix
index 37218f84868..e19eac1c51e 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/misc/nginx-config-formatter/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/nginx-config-formatter/default.nix
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 { stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, python3 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  version = "2016-06-16";
+  version = "2019-02-13";
   name = "nginx-config-formatter-${version}";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "1connect";
     repo = "nginx-config-formatter";
-    rev = "fe5c77d2a503644bebee2caaa8b222c201c0603d";
-    sha256 = "0akpkbq5136k1i1z1ls6yksis35hbr70k8vd10laqwvr1jj41bga";
+    rev = "4ea6bbc1bdeb1d28419548aeca90f323e64e0e05";
+    sha256 = "0h6pj9i0wim9pzkafi92l1nhlnl2a530vnm7qqi3n2ra8iwfyw4f";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [ python3 ];