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@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ It is highly recommended to use the [OpenResty bundle](http://openresty.org) tha
 
 Alternatively, ngx_lua can be manually compiled into Nginx:
 
-1. Install LuaJIT 2.0 or 2.1 (recommended) or Lua 5.1 (Lua 5.2 is *not* supported yet). LuaJIT can be downloaded from the [the LuaJIT project website](http://luajit.org/download.html) and Lua 5.1, from the [Lua project website](http://www.lua.org/).  Some distribution package managers also distribute LuaJIT and/or Lua.
+1. Install LuaJIT 2.0 or 2.1 (recommended) or Lua 5.1 (Lua 5.2 is *not* supported yet). LuaJIT can be downloaded from [the LuaJIT project website](http://luajit.org/download.html) and Lua 5.1, from the [Lua project website](http://www.lua.org/).  Some distribution package managers also distribute LuaJIT and/or Lua.
 1. Download the latest version of the ngx_devel_kit (NDK) module [HERE](https://github.com/simpl/ngx_devel_kit/tags).
 1. Download the latest version of ngx_lua [HERE](https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module/tags).
 1. Download the latest version of Nginx [HERE](http://nginx.org/) (See [Nginx Compatibility](#nginx-compatibility))