diff --git a/nixos/tests/nginx-modsecurity.nix b/nixos/tests/nginx-modsecurity.nix
index 5ceee3787297..3c41da3e8d9b 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/nginx-modsecurity.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/nginx-modsecurity.nix
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import ./make-test-python.nix ({ pkgs, lib, ... }: {
   nodes.machine = { config, lib, pkgs, ... }: {
     services.nginx = {
       enable = true;
-      additionalModules = [ pkgs.nginxModules.modsecurity-nginx ];
+      additionalModules = [ pkgs.nginxModules.modsecurity ];
       virtualHosts.localhost =
         let modsecurity_conf = pkgs.writeText "modsecurity.conf" ''
           SecRuleEngine On
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/generic.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/generic.nix
index c4fe7f892051..a18b771aa1c3 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/generic.nix
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ with lib;
 
 let
 
+  moduleNames = map (mod: mod.name or (throw "The nginx module with source ${toString mod.src} does not have a `name` attribute. This prevents duplicate module detection and is no longer supported."))
+    modules;
+
   mapModules = attrPath: flip concatMap modules
     (mod:
       let supports = mod.supports or (_: true);
@@ -41,6 +44,9 @@ let
 
 in
 
+assert assertMsg (unique moduleNames == moduleNames)
+  "nginx: duplicate modules: ${concatStringsSep ", " moduleNames}. A common cause for this is that services.nginx.additionalModules adds a module which the nixos module itself already adds.";
+
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   inherit pname;
   inherit version;
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/modules.nix b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/modules.nix
index 7d8a6716bc97..2eebf84b41ea 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/modules.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/http/nginx/modules.nix
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-{ fetchFromGitHub, fetchFromGitLab, fetchhg, lib, pkgs }:
+{ config, fetchFromGitHub, fetchFromGitLab, fetchhg, lib, pkgs }:
 
 let
 
   http_proxy_connect_module_generic = patchName: rec {
+    name = "http_proxy_connect";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "http_proxy_connect_module_generic";
       owner = "chobits";
@@ -10,7 +11,6 @@ let
       rev = "96ae4e06381f821218f368ad0ba964f87cbe0266";
       sha256 = "1nc7z31i7x9dzp67kzgvs34hs6ps749y26wcpi3wf5mm63i803rh";
     };
-
     patches = [
       "${src}/patch/${patchName}.patch"
     ];
@@ -18,11 +18,12 @@ let
 
 in
 
-{
+let self = {
   fastcgi-cache-purge = throw "fastcgi-cache-purge was renamed to cache-purge";
   ngx_aws_auth = throw "ngx_aws_auth was renamed to aws-auth";
 
   akamai-token-validate = {
+    name = "akamai-token-validate";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "akamai-token-validate";
       owner = "kaltura";
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ in
   };
 
   auth-a2aclr = {
+    name = "auth-a2aclr";
     src = fetchFromGitLab {
       name = "auth-a2aclr";
       owner = "arpa2";
@@ -57,6 +59,7 @@ in
   };
 
   aws-auth = {
+    name = "aws-auth";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "aws-auth";
       owner = "anomalizer";
@@ -67,6 +70,7 @@ in
   };
 
   brotli = {
+    name = "brotli";
     src = let gitsrc = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "brotli";
       owner = "google";
@@ -83,6 +87,7 @@ in
   };
 
   cache-purge = {
+    name = "cache-purge";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "cache-purge";
       owner = "nginx-modules";
@@ -93,6 +98,7 @@ in
   };
 
   coolkit = {
+    name = "coolkit";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "coolkit";
       owner = "FRiCKLE";
@@ -103,6 +109,7 @@ in
   };
 
   dav = {
+    name = "dav";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "dav";
       owner = "arut";
@@ -114,6 +121,7 @@ in
   };
 
   develkit = {
+    name = "develkit";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "develkit";
       owner = "vision5";
@@ -124,6 +132,7 @@ in
   };
 
   echo = {
+    name = "echo";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "echo";
       owner = "openresty";
@@ -134,6 +143,7 @@ in
   };
 
   fancyindex = {
+    name = "fancyindex";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "fancyindex";
       owner = "aperezdc";
@@ -147,6 +157,7 @@ in
   };
 
   fluentd = {
+    name = "fluentd";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "fluentd";
       owner = "fluent";
@@ -157,6 +168,7 @@ in
   };
 
   geoip2 = {
+    name = "geoip2";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "geoip2";
       owner = "leev";
@@ -180,6 +192,7 @@ in
   };
 
   ipscrub = {
+    name = "ipscrub";
     src = fetchFromGitHub
       {
         name = "ipscrub";
@@ -192,6 +205,7 @@ in
   };
 
   limit-speed = {
+    name = "limit-speed";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "limit-speed";
       owner = "yaoweibin";
@@ -202,6 +216,7 @@ in
   };
 
   live = {
+    name = "live";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "live";
       owner = "arut";
@@ -212,6 +227,7 @@ in
   };
 
   lua = {
+    name = "lua";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "lua";
       owner = "openresty";
@@ -228,6 +244,7 @@ in
   };
 
   lua-upstream = {
+    name = "lua-upstream";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "lua-upstream";
       owner = "openresty";
@@ -240,14 +257,7 @@ in
   };
 
   modsecurity = {
-    src = "${pkgs.modsecurity_standalone.nginx}/nginx/modsecurity";
-    inputs = [ pkgs.curl pkgs.apr pkgs.aprutil pkgs.apacheHttpd pkgs.yajl ];
-    preConfigure = ''
-      export NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="$NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE -I${pkgs.aprutil.dev}/include/apr-1 -I${pkgs.apacheHttpd.dev}/include -I${pkgs.apr.dev}/include/apr-1 -I${pkgs.yajl}/include"
-    '';
-  };
-
-  modsecurity-nginx = {
+    name = "modsecurity";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "modsecurity-nginx";
       owner = "SpiderLabs";
@@ -260,6 +270,7 @@ in
   };
 
   moreheaders = {
+    name = "moreheaders";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "moreheaders";
       owner = "openresty";
@@ -270,6 +281,7 @@ in
   };
 
   mpeg-ts = {
+    name = "mpeg-ts";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "mpeg-ts";
       owner = "arut";
@@ -280,17 +292,18 @@ in
   };
 
   naxsi = {
-    src = fetchFromGitHub
-      {
-        name = "naxsi";
-        owner = "nbs-system";
-        repo = "naxsi";
-        rev = "95ac520eed2ea04098a76305fd0ad7e9158840b7";
-        sha256 = "0b5pnqkgg18kbw5rf2ifiq7lsx5rqmpqsql6hx5ycxjzxj6acfb3";
-      } + "/naxsi_src";
+    name = "naxsi";
+    src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      name = "naxsi";
+      owner = "nbs-system";
+      repo = "naxsi";
+      rev = "95ac520eed2ea04098a76305fd0ad7e9158840b7";
+      sha256 = "0b5pnqkgg18kbw5rf2ifiq7lsx5rqmpqsql6hx5ycxjzxj6acfb3";
+    } + "/naxsi_src";
   };
 
   njs = rec {
+    name = "njs";
     src = fetchhg {
       url = "https://hg.nginx.org/njs";
       rev = "0.7.8";
@@ -313,6 +326,7 @@ in
   };
 
   opentracing = {
+    name = "opentracing";
     src =
       let src' = fetchFromGitHub {
         name = "opentracing";
@@ -353,12 +367,14 @@ in
         '';
     in
     {
+      name = "pagespeed";
       src = ngx_pagespeed;
       inputs = [ pkgs.zlib pkgs.libuuid ]; # psol deps
       allowMemoryWriteExecute = true;
     };
 
   pam = {
+    name = "pam";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "pam";
       owner = "sto";
@@ -370,6 +386,7 @@ in
   };
 
   pinba = {
+    name = "pinba";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "pinba";
       owner = "tony2001";
@@ -380,6 +397,7 @@ in
   };
 
   push-stream = {
+    name = "push-stream";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "push-stream";
       owner = "wandenberg";
@@ -390,6 +408,7 @@ in
   };
 
   rtmp = {
+    name = "rtmp";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "rtmp";
       owner = "arut";
@@ -400,6 +419,7 @@ in
   };
 
   secure-token = {
+    name = "secure-token";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "secure-token";
       owner = "kaltura";
@@ -411,6 +431,7 @@ in
   };
 
   set-misc = {
+    name = "set-misc";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "set-misc";
       owner = "openresty";
@@ -421,6 +442,7 @@ in
   };
 
   shibboleth = {
+    name = "shibboleth";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "shibboleth";
       owner = "nginx-shib";
@@ -431,6 +453,7 @@ in
   };
 
   sla = {
+    name = "sla";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "sla";
       owner = "goldenclone";
@@ -441,6 +464,7 @@ in
   };
 
   slowfs-cache = {
+    name = "slowfs-cache";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "slowfs-cache";
       owner = "FRiCKLE";
@@ -451,6 +475,7 @@ in
   };
 
   sorted-querystring = {
+    name = "sorted-querystring";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "sorted-querystring";
       owner = "wandenberg";
@@ -461,6 +486,7 @@ in
   };
 
   spnego-http-auth = {
+    name = "spnego-http-auth";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "spnego-http-auth";
       owner = "stnoonan";
@@ -471,6 +497,7 @@ in
   };
 
   statsd = {
+    name = "statsd";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "statsd";
       owner = "harvesthq";
@@ -481,6 +508,7 @@ in
   };
 
   stream-sts = {
+    name = "stream-sts";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "stream-sts";
       owner = "vozlt";
@@ -491,6 +519,7 @@ in
   };
 
   sts = {
+    name = "sts";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "sts";
       owner = "vozlt";
@@ -501,6 +530,7 @@ in
   };
 
   subsFilter = {
+    name = "subsFilter";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "subsFilter";
       owner = "yaoweibin";
@@ -511,6 +541,7 @@ in
   };
 
   sysguard = {
+    name = "sysguard";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "sysguard";
       owner = "vozlt";
@@ -521,6 +552,7 @@ in
   };
 
   upload = {
+    name = "upload";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "upload";
       owner = "fdintino";
@@ -531,6 +563,7 @@ in
   };
 
   upstream-check = {
+    name = "upstream-check";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "upstream-check";
       owner = "yaoweibin";
@@ -541,6 +574,7 @@ in
   };
 
   upstream-tarantool = {
+    name = "upstream-tarantool";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "upstream-tarantool";
       owner = "tarantool";
@@ -552,6 +586,7 @@ in
   };
 
   url = {
+    name = "url";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "url";
       owner = "vozlt";
@@ -562,6 +597,7 @@ in
   };
 
   video-thumbextractor = {
+    name = "video-thumbextractor";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "video-thumbextractor";
       owner = "wandenberg";
@@ -573,6 +609,7 @@ in
   };
 
   vod = {
+    name = "vod";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "vod";
       owner = "kaltura";
@@ -584,6 +621,7 @@ in
   };
 
   vts = {
+    name = "vts";
     src = fetchFromGitHub {
       name = "vts";
       owner = "vozlt";
@@ -592,4 +630,7 @@ in
       sha256 = "sha256-x4ry5ljPeJQY+7Mp04/xYIGf22d6Nee7CSqHezdK4gQ=";
     };
   };
+}; in self // lib.optionalAttrs config.allowAliases {
+  # deprecated or renamed packages
+  modsecurity-nginx = self.modsecurity;
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 66f013098a8f..e0a8a9ad86f0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -34907,7 +34907,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   tengine = callPackage ../servers/http/tengine {
     openssl = openssl_1_1;
-    modules = with nginxModules; [ rtmp dav moreheaders modsecurity-nginx ];
+    modules = with nginxModules; [ rtmp dav moreheaders modsecurity ];
   };
 
   tennix = callPackage ../games/tennix { };