runtime error: ...lua/5.1/resty/session.lua:3: module 'resty.random' not found:

[rajeevn1]

installed on debian as follows:

apt-get install -t testing libnginx-mod-http-lua lua{-{cjson,resty-core},rocks}
luarocks install lua-resty-openidc

[bodewig]

I'm afraid by trying to set up nginx without using OpenResty you are in for a bit of extra work. AFAIK (and I'm really not an expert here) OpenResty bundles quite a few more Lua packages than just core and the Lua module. If you try to replicate that by yourself you may need to add more and more packages manually.