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   1 # Nginx Office Hours
   2
   3 A victory for the server's labor rights: An nginx module that allows you to serve your content only during office hours.
   4
   5 ## Using the directive
   6
   7 The `office_hours` directive expects a list of time ranges separated by
   8 spaces. The first range will be used as the default, and the rest will
   9 be read from right to left, ending with *sunday*
  10
  11 ### Example 1: Open 24 hours
  12
  13 Don't use this directive.
  14
  15 ### Example 2: Open every day from 08:30 AM to 7:00 PM
  16
  17 ```
  18 office_hours 8:30-19;
  19 ```
  20
  21 Some things worth noting here: the format of time ranges uses 24 hour
  22 style, so no pesky AMs or PMs. Likewise, minutes are optional. Finally,
  23 note that since only one range was defined, this is applied to all days
  24 of the week. Another noteworthy
  25
  26 ### Example 3: Open every day from 08:30 AM to 7:00 PM, but closed sundays
  27
  28 ```
  29 office_hours 8:30-19 closed;
  30 ```
  31
  32 Two important things here: first notice that the closed keyword
  33 specifies that the server is closed on a specific day; second, notice
  34 how the last element is used for sunday, while the first one still
  35 applies to Monday-Saturday.
  36
  37 ### Example 4: Open weekdays from 08:30 AM to 7:00 PM, Saturdays 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, closed on sundays
  38
  39 ```
  40 office_hours 8:30-19 10-16 closed;
  41 ```
  42
  43 Now hopefully you can see the pattern: The first time range applies to
  44 Monday-Friday, next one to Saturday and last one to Sunday.
  45
  46 ### Example 5: Open weekdays from 08:30 AM to 7:00 PM, closed on thursdays, reduced hours on weekends.
  47
  48 ```
  49 office_hours 8:30-19 closed 8:30-19 10-16 10-16;
  50 ```
  51
  52 Since we had to specify from Thursday, we have to explicitly set the
  53 values for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
  54
  55 ### Example 6: Closed every day.
  56
  57 Uninstall nginx.
  58
  59 ## What you will need to get started
  60
  61 I'm still not sure! I'm learning how to build this nginx module, so I'll
  62 figure it out as I go and add it here.
  63
  64 * [astyle][astyle]: Used to format the code
  65 * An `nginx` [source distribution][nginx] to compile the code.
  66
  67 ## Building the module
  68
  69 You can build this module as a dynamic module. From the `nginx` source
  70 directory run:
  71
  72 ```
  73 ./configure --add-dynamic-module=/path/to/ngx_http_office_hours_filter_module
  74 make
  75 ```
  76
  77 For more information check the [nginx docs][nginx-module-docs]
  78
  79 ## Installing git hooks
  80
  81 This repo contains a pre-commit git hook so indent will run before every
  82 commit. Run `make setup_hooks` to install it.
  83
  84 ## Further Improvements
  85
  86 * Add support for timezones (currently only GMT)
  87 * Add support for public holidays
  88 * Add support to respect the time zone of the visitor and not just the
  89   server
  90 * Add support for double shifts in the same day
  91
  92 [astyle]: http://astyle.sourceforge.net
  93 [nginx]: https://nginx.org/en/download.html
  94 [nginx-module-docs]: https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/extending/