diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/generic.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/generic.nix
index 67a914b6a98..80bc1458ad7 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/generic.nix
@@ -68,6 +68,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     "--with-http_stub_status_module"
     "--with-threads"
     "--with-pcre-jit"
+    "--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log"
+    "--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log"
+    "--pid-path=/var/log/nginx/nginx.pid"
+    "--http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_body"
+    "--http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy"
+    "--http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi"
+    "--http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi"
+    "--http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi"
   ] ++ optionals withDebug [
     "--with-debug"
   ] ++ optionals withStream [
@@ -99,26 +107,28 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   preConfigure = preConfigure
     + concatMapStringsSep "\n" (mod: mod.preConfigure or "") modules;
 
-  patches = map fixPatch
-    (singleton (substituteAll {
+  patches = map fixPatch ([
+    (substituteAll {
       src = ./nix-etag-1.15.4.patch;
       preInstall = ''
         export nixStoreDir="$NIX_STORE" nixStoreDirLen="''${#NIX_STORE}"
       '';
-    }) ++ optionals (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform) [
-      (fetchpatch {
-        url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openwrt/packages/master/net/nginx/patches/102-sizeof_test_fix.patch";
-        sha256 = "0i2k30ac8d7inj9l6bl0684kjglam2f68z8lf3xggcc2i5wzhh8a";
-      })
-      (fetchpatch {
-        url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openwrt/packages/master/net/nginx/patches/101-feature_test_fix.patch";
-        sha256 = "0v6890a85aqmw60pgj3mm7g8nkaphgq65dj4v9c6h58wdsrc6f0y";
-      })
-      (fetchpatch {
-        url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openwrt/packages/master/net/nginx/patches/103-sys_nerr.patch";
-        sha256 = "0s497x6mkz947aw29wdy073k8dyjq8j99lax1a1mzpikzr4rxlmd";
-      })
-    ] ++ mapModules "patches");
+    })
+    ./nix-skip-check-logs-path.patch
+  ] ++ optionals (stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform) [
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openwrt/packages/master/net/nginx/patches/102-sizeof_test_fix.patch";
+      sha256 = "0i2k30ac8d7inj9l6bl0684kjglam2f68z8lf3xggcc2i5wzhh8a";
+    })
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openwrt/packages/master/net/nginx/patches/101-feature_test_fix.patch";
+      sha256 = "0v6890a85aqmw60pgj3mm7g8nkaphgq65dj4v9c6h58wdsrc6f0y";
+    })
+    (fetchpatch {
+      url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openwrt/packages/master/net/nginx/patches/103-sys_nerr.patch";
+      sha256 = "0s497x6mkz947aw29wdy073k8dyjq8j99lax1a1mzpikzr4rxlmd";
+    })
+  ] ++ mapModules "patches");
 
   hardeningEnable = optional (!stdenv.isDarwin) "pie";
 
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/nix-skip-check-logs-path.patch b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/nix-skip-check-logs-path.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a823660cc32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/nix-skip-check-logs-path.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+diff --git a/auto/install b/auto/install
+index d884487..dccc411 100644
+--- a/auto/install
++++ b/auto/install
+@@ -148,12 +148,6 @@ install:	build $NGX_INSTALL_PERL_MODULES
+ 		|| cp conf/nginx.conf '\$(DESTDIR)$NGX_CONF_PATH'
+ 	cp conf/nginx.conf '\$(DESTDIR)$NGX_CONF_PREFIX/nginx.conf.default'
+ 
+-	test -d '\$(DESTDIR)`dirname "$NGX_PID_PATH"`' \\
+-		|| mkdir -p '\$(DESTDIR)`dirname "$NGX_PID_PATH"`'
+-
+-	test -d '\$(DESTDIR)`dirname "$NGX_HTTP_LOG_PATH"`' \\
+-		|| mkdir -p '\$(DESTDIR)`dirname "$NGX_HTTP_LOG_PATH"`'
+-
+ 	test -d '\$(DESTDIR)$NGX_PREFIX/html' \\
+ 		|| cp -R $NGX_HTML '\$(DESTDIR)$NGX_PREFIX'
+ END
+@@ -161,9 +155,6 @@ END
+ 
+ if test -n "$NGX_ERROR_LOG_PATH"; then
+     cat << END                                                >> $NGX_MAKEFILE
+-
+-	test -d '\$(DESTDIR)`dirname "$NGX_ERROR_LOG_PATH"`' \\
+-		|| mkdir -p '\$(DESTDIR)`dirname "$NGX_ERROR_LOG_PATH"`'
+ END
+ 
+ fi
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/openresty/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/openresty/default.nix
index 0e87b971985..9c01cfb19e1 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/openresty/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/openresty/default.nix
@@ -16,10 +16,11 @@ callPackage ../nginx/generic.nix args rec {
     sha256 = "1a1la7vszv1parsnhphydblz64ffhycazncn3ividnvqg2mg735n";
   };
 
-  fixPatch = patch:
-    runCommand "openresty-${patch.name}" { src = patch; } ''
+  fixPatch = patch: let name = patch.name or (builtins.baseNameOf patch); in
+    runCommand "openresty-${name}" { src = patch; } ''
       substitute $src $out \
-        --replace "src/" "bundle/nginx-${nginxVersion}/src/"
+        --replace "a/" "a/bundle/nginx-${nginxVersion}/" \
+        --replace "b/" "b/bundle/nginx-${nginxVersion}/"
     '';
 
   buildInputs = [ postgresql ];