Setup Odoo 11 As A Service On Ubuntu 16.04

Find the easiest installation guide of odoo 11 on your Ubuntu 16.04 and explore amazing new features of odoo 11.

Step 1: Update apt source list

• sudo apt-get update

• Fire following commands if you are getting error like:

“Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?”

• sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock

• sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

• sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

• Do not run first command again

Step 2: Install Python Dependencies for Odoo 11

• sudo apt install python3-pip postgresql postgresql-server-dev-9.5 python-all-dev python-dev python-setuptools libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libevent-dev libsasl2-dev libldap2-dev pkg-config libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev libjpeg-dev zlib1g-dev libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev liblcms2-utils libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev python-tk libyaml-dev fontconfig

Step 3:  Install PostgreSQL 9.5+ Follow below steps with postgres user

• sudo su - postgres

• createuser odoo -U postgres -dRSP

• Press CTRL+D to exit the postgres user session.

Step 4:  Configure odoo 11Configure odoo 11 (by odoo user)

• sudo mkdir /opt/odoo

• sudo adduser --system --home=/opt/odoo --group odoo

• sudo chown -R odoo: /opt/odoo/

• Download odoo 11 zip file from nightly build repository from URL : https://nightly.odoo.com/11.0/nightly/src/

• Extract file and transfer it to /opt/odoo directory:

  • Go to directory where odoo 11 is downloaded.

  • sudo unzip <file-name>

  • sudo cp -r <directory-name> /opt/odoo/

  • The file odoo-bin is NOT in the directory.

    • You can download it from https://nightly.odoo.com/10.0/nightly/src/ and put it on /opt/odoo/<odoo-11-directory>

• sudo pip3 install -r /opt/odoo/<odoo-directory-name>/requirements.txt

Step 5:  Install Odoo Web Dependencies (by sudo user)

• sudo apt-get install -y npm

  • If you get warning like “E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution)”. Run the following command

    • sudo apt-get -f install

• sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

• sudo apt-get install npm (ignore this command if already exist)

• sudo npm install -g less less-plugin-clean-css

• sudo apt-get install node-less

Step 6: Install Stable Wkhtmltopdf Version (by sudo user)

• cd /tmp

• sudo wget https://downloads.wkhtmltopdf.org/0.12/0.12.1/wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb

• sudo dpkg -i wkhtmltox-0.12.1_linux-trusty-amd64.deb

• sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf /usr/bin

• sudo cp /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltoimage /usr/bin

Step 7: Create Odoo Server Configuration and Log File (by odoo user)

• sudo mkdir /var/log/odoo

• cd /etc

• sudo nano odoo-server.conf

• Copy and paste below content in the config file, write correct addons paths, DB user and DB password. Now save the file.

[options] admin_passwd = <strong password> db_host = localhost db_port = 5432 db_user = odoo db_password = *********** addons_path = /opt/odoo/odoo-11-directory/odoo/addons,/opt/odoo/custom-addons logfile = /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log xmlrpc_port = 8069 dbfilter = * xmlrpc_interface = 127.0.0.1 proxy_mode = True

Step 8: Create an Odoo Service (by sudo user)

• cd /lib/systemd/system

• sudo nano odoo-server.service

• Copy and paste below content in the file and save it.

Step 9: Change File Ownership and Permissions (by sudo user):

• sudo chmod 755 /lib/systemd/system/odoo-server.service

• sudo chown root: /lib/systemd/system/odoo-server.service

• sudo chown odoo:root /var/log/odoo

• sudo chown odoo: /etc/odoo-server.conf

• sudo chmod 640 /etc/odoo-server.conf

Step 10: Now Start Odoo Server and Enable the Service (by sudo user)

• sudo systemctl enable odoo-server

• sudo systemctl start odoo-server

• Using ‘status’, you can find information about all running odoo servers.

  • sudo systemctl status odoo-server

Step 11: Steps to configure Apache2 with odoo (by sudo user)

• sudo apt-get install apache2

• sudo ufw app list

• sudo ufw allow 'Apache Full'

• sudo ufw status

• sudo systemctl status apache2

• cd /etc/apache2/sites-available

• sudo nano test-odoo.conf

<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName odoo.test.com ServerAlias odoo.test.com    LogLevel warn      ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/odoo.test.com.error.log      CustomLog /var/log/apache2/odoo.test.com.access.log combined    ProxyPass / http://localhost:8069/      ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8069/ </VirtualHost>

• sudo a2ensite test-odoo.conf

• sudo a2enmod proxy

• sudo a2enmod proxy_balancer

• sudo a2enmod proxy_http

• sudo service apache2 reload

Do host file entry /etc/hosts. Now your odoo 11 is ready for use.