Deploying Installing Odoo (10c) on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server : Linux Reference

Deploying Odoo (10c) on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server

Add System User named odoo

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0. Switch to root user (if you are already root user skip this):

   sudo su - 
   

1. Add user odoo

   adduser odoo
   

Install Back-end (database server) to be used with Odoo

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2. Installing Postgresql (Databse Server)

   apt-get install postgresql
   

Install Odoo (application server) dependencies and supporting libraries required to run odoo server.

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3. Install git

   apt-get install git
   

4. Install pip: python package manager

   apt-get install python-pip
   

5. Installing devel packages for compiling python libraries

   apt-get install python-dev postgresql-server-dev-all libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev libpng12-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev
   

6. Node-less installation

   apt-get install node-less
   

7. Clone odoo

   su odoo
   cd /home/odoo
   git clone https://github.com/odoo/odoo.git
   exit
   

8. Install python library

   cd /home/odoo/odoo pip install -r requirements.txt

9. Create odoo user for postgresql with database creation rights

   su postgres createuser -d odoo exit

10. Install wkhtmltopdf 0.12.1 !! (0.12.1 is identified to be working perfect with odoo, other version have bug and you may encounter unexpected issues. )

Get correct installer of wkhtmlpdf for your OS from here : https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/tag/0.12.1

(Below instruction are for x64 bit machine with an ubuntu x64 bit 16.04)

apt-get install fontconfig libfontconfig1 libxrender1 fontconfig-config
wget https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf/releases/download/0.12.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb
cd /usr/local/bin/
cp wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin/wkhtmltoimage
cp wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf

11. Testing the installation of odoo is working correction (this is optional) :

    su odoo
    cd /home/odoo/odoo
    ./odoo-bin
    

Launch the browser http://<yourip>:8069 the odoo database creation page should open, tried to create a database Ctrl + c to kill the odoo process from the console Switch back to root user by exiting odoo user exit

Create Odoo boot script (init.d)

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12. Deploy init.d script to start odoo daemons (Odoo as system service) and start odoo automatically on system boot

12.1. Create a log directory

    su odoo
mkdir /home/odoo/log or /var/log.odoo

12.2. Create odoo config file: following command will generate the Odoo config file with all parameter set to give -c file path)

    cd /home/odoo/odoo
./odoo-bin -s -c /home/odoo/odoo.conf --stop-after-init --logfile=/home/odoo/log/odoo.log

12.3. Create the odoo daemons (init.d) file :

    exit 
    cp /home/odoo/odoo/debian/init /etc/init.d/odoo 

12.4. Update the odoo daemons (init.d) file permissions (linux accessrigths)

    chmod 755 /etc/init.d/odoo

12.5. Modify the odoo daemons (init.d) file parameters (Update odoo server executable file path, config file path and odoo log file path in daemons file )

    nano /etc/init.d/odoo


  12.5.1 Update file with the following lines (replace existing lines with this lines):


    DAEMON = /home/odoo/odoo/odoo-bin
CONFIGFILE = /home/odoo/odoo.conf
LOGFILE = /home/odoo/log/odoo-server.log

12.6 Testing the Odoo daemons (init.d) script :

    /etc/init.d/odoo start


   Test again on `http://<yourip>:8069`

12.7. Ensure that the Odoo daemons (init.d) script runs at on system boot at startup

    update-rc.d odoo defaults

13. Running Odoo behind proxy servers (configure nginx for odoo: edit conf file), you can find nginx configuration at below URL:

    • https://www.odoo.com/documentation/10.0/setup/deploy.html

14. Basic Security Measures: Odoo more accessible on the port and change the master password 14.1. Update Odoo conf file from :

    vim /home/odoo/odoo.conf

Change following parameter

    admin_passwd = admin 
Xmlrpc_interface =
proxy_mode = False


 With 

    admin_passwd = your_secret_password
xmlrpc_interface = 127.0.0.1
proxy_mode = True

14.2 Finally Restart odoo server

    /etc/init.d/odoo restart

Important Tip !!!

For testing and production run Odoo in multi-processing mode to get maximum out of system. Out-of-box odoo runs on multi-threading mode which is not optimal for production.

• Read more on multiprocessing mode and deploying here :
  • https://www.odoo.com/documentation/10.0/setup/deploy.html

More on understanding Odoo Server and Your deployment.

• Read following on How to Optimize Odoo, Improve Performance, Monitoring Odoo server and Tips and Tricks about deployments of Odoo.

  • https://www.odoo.com/slides/slide/how-to-optimize-the-performance-229
  • https://www.slideshare.net/openobject/performance2014-35689113
  • https://www.odoo.com/slides/slide/performance-tips-tricks-399
  • https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-speed-up-odoo/

• Must Read About Odoo Framework (Architecture) Documentation is old but it's must read :

  • https://doc.odoo.com/trunk/server/02_architecture

• Basic Postgresql tuning can be done by following this URL :

  • http://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/

• More on articles on postgresql tuning :

  • https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server