Script adapted from the post: http://brian.akins.org/blog/2013/03/19/building-openresty-on-ubuntu/. Used to create openresty for my vagrant environnement under debian.

build-openresty.sh

#!/bin/sh

OPENRESTY_VERSION="1.2.7.8"
INSTALL=/tmp/openresty
mkdir -p ${INSTALL}/var/lib/nginx
install -m 0555 -D nginx.init ${INSTALL}/etc/init.d/nginx
install -m 0555 -D nginx.logrotate ${INSTALL}/etc/logrotate.d/nginx

sudo apt-get -y install make ruby1.9.1 ruby1.9.1-dev git-core \
	libpcre3-dev libxslt1-dev libgd2-xpm-dev libgeoip-dev unzip zip build-essential

if !hash gdate 2>/dev/null; then
	sudo gem install fpm
fi

cd /tmp

if [ ! -f ngx_openresty-${OPENRESTY_VERSION}.tar.gz ]
then
	wget http://openresty.org/download/ngx_openresty-${OPENRESTY_VERSION}.tar.gz	
fi
if [ ! -d ngx_openresty-${OPENRESTY_VERSION} ]
then
	tar -zxvf ngx_openresty-${OPENRESTY_VERSION}.tar.gz
fi
cd ngx_openresty-${OPENRESTY_VERSION}

./configure \
	 --with-luajit \
	 --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx \
	 --conf-path=/etc/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_dav_module \
	 --with-http_flv_module \
	 --with-http_geoip_module \
	 --with-http_gzip_static_module \
	 --with-http_image_filter_module \
	 --with-http_realip_module \
	 --with-http_stub_status_module \
	 --with-http_ssl_module \
	 --with-http_sub_module \
	 --with-http_xslt_module \
	 --with-ipv6 \
	 --with-sha1=/usr/include/openssl \
	 --with-md5=/usr/include/openssl \
	 --with-mail \
	 --with-mail_ssl_module \
	 --with-http_stub_status_module \
	 --with-http_secure_link_module \
	 --with-http_sub_module 

make

make install DESTDIR=$INSTALL

fpm -s dir -t deb -n nginx -v ${OPENRESTY_VERSION} --iteration 1 -C $INSTALL \
	--description "openresty ${OPENRESTY_VERSION}" \
	-d libxslt1.1 \
	-d libgd2-xpm \
	-d libgeoip1 \
	-d libpcre3 \
	--config-files etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf.default \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/win-utf \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/nginx.conf \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/koi-win \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/nginx.conf.default \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/mime.types.default \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/koi-utf \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/uwsgi_params \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/uwsgi_params.default \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/sites-available/default \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params.default \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/mime.types \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/scgi_params.default \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/scgi_params \
	--config-files /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf \
	etc usr var

nginx.init

#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          nginx
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts the nginx web server
# Description:       starts nginx using start-stop-daemon
### END INIT INFO

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/nginx
NAME=nginx
DESC=nginx

# Include nginx defaults if available
if [ -f /etc/default/nginx ]; then
	. /etc/default/nginx
fi

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

set -e

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

test_nginx_config() {
	if $DAEMON -t $DAEMON_OPTS >/dev/null 2>&1; then
		return 0
	else
		$DAEMON -t $DAEMON_OPTS
		return $?
	fi
}

case "$1" in
	start)
		echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
		test_nginx_config
		# Check if the ULIMIT is set in /etc/default/nginx
		if [ -n "$ULIMIT" ]; then
			# Set the ulimits
			ulimit $ULIMIT
		fi
		start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
		    --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS || true
		echo "$NAME."
		;;

	stop)
		echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
		start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
		    --exec $DAEMON || true
		echo "$NAME."
		;;

	restart|force-reload)
		echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
		start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile \
		    /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON || true
		sleep 1
		test_nginx_config
		# Check if the ULIMIT is set in /etc/default/nginx
		if [ -n "$ULIMIT" ]; then
			# Set the ulimits
			ulimit $ULIMIT
		fi
		start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile \
		    /var/run/$NAME.pid --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS || true
		echo "$NAME."
		;;

	reload)
		echo -n "Reloading $DESC configuration: "
		test_nginx_config
		start-stop-daemon --stop --signal HUP --quiet --pidfile /var/run/$NAME.pid \
		    --exec $DAEMON || true
		echo "$NAME."
		;;

	configtest|testconfig)
		echo -n "Testing $DESC configuration: "
		if test_nginx_config; then
			echo "$NAME."
		else
			exit $?
		fi
		;;

	status)
		status_of_proc -p /var/run/$NAME.pid "$DAEMON" nginx && exit 0 || exit $?
		;;
	*)
		echo "Usage: $NAME {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status|configtest}" >&2
		exit 1
		;;
esac

exit 0

nginx.logrotate

/var/log/nginx/*.log {
        daily
        missingok
        rotate 52
        compress
        delaycompress
        notifempty
        create 640 root adm
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                [ ! -f /var/run/nginx.pid ] || kill -USR1 `cat /var/run/nginx.pid`
        endscript
}