Odoo v8 installation on remote ubuntu server

Open terminal and type:
- ssh machine_name@ip ↲
Update Ubuntu Machine:
- sudo apt-get update ↲
If some problem in update like-
- Internet connection issue
- Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
then type sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf ↲
and type following line nameserver 127.0.1.1
- sudo apt-get update

- If there are some missing or incomplete installation then type

sudo apt-get install -f ↲

PostgreSQL Server Installation and Configuration:

- sudo apt-get install postgresql ↲

- login to postgres user type sudo su postgres ↲

- Create new role named “odoo” which is super user

createuser -s -d -r -s -W odoo ; ↲ type password as “odoo”

Install the necessary Python libraries for the server:
sudo apt-get install python-dateutil python-decorator python-docutils python-feedparser \

python-gdata python-gevent python-imaging python-jinja2 python-ldap python-libxslt1 python-lxml \

python-mako python-mock python-openid python-passlib python-psutil python-psycopg2 python-pybabel \

python-pychart python-pydot python-pyparsing python-pypdf python-reportlab python-requests \

python-simplejson python-tz python-unittest2 python-vatnumber python-vobject python-werkzeug \

python-xlwt python-yaml wkhtmltopdf ↲

Install the Odoo server:

  i)Install from git:

       Install git package.

       sudo apt-get install git ↲

       Copy of the most current Odoo 8 branch (Note the “.” at the end of this command!):

       git clone https://www.github.com/odoo/odoo --depth 1 --branch 8.0 --single-branch . ↲

                         OR

  ii) Downloading the OpenERP Server:

       OpenERP website's download page

                         OR

  iii)  Download nightly version type 

sudo wgethttp://nightly.openerp.com/8.0/nightly/src/odoo_8.0-latest.tar.gz ↲

- Copy it to “opt” folder type

sudo cp odoo_8.0-latest.tar.gz /opt/ ↲

sudo tar -xvzf odoo_8.0-latest.tar.gz ↲

- Rename the extracted folder to "odoo"

sudo mv openerp-8.0-1b53469 odoo ↲

- And finally hit setup installation command

cd /opt/odoo ↲

sudo python setup.py install ↲

Creating a configuration file for OpenERP Server:

- You can start the OpenERP server with the -s option to create a configuration file with default options, then modify it. For configuration file type ./openerp-server -s ↲

- The default OpenERP configuration file is located in $HOME/.openerp_serverrc, that is a file named .openerp_serverrc in the home directory of the system user under which OpenERP runs. This is the default value for the -c startup parameter.

- Copy .openerp_serverrc to opt folder sudo cp /home/sagar/.openerp_serverrc /etc/ ↲

- Rename it to odoo_service sudo mv /etc/.openerp_serverrc /etc/odoo-server ↲

- Set access right sudo chmod 640 /etc/odoo-server ↲

- You can configure server setting type sudo nano /etc/odoo-server ↲

- And Chne some parameter like

db_host = localhost

db_user = odoo

db_password = odoo

logfile = /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log # or None

xmlrpc_port = 8069 # Port where yotr server start

netrpc_port = 8080

-To save log details you can create folder and log file into log folder cd /var/log ↲

Create folder “odoo” sudo mkdir odoo ↲

Create logfile sudo nano /var/log/odoo/odoo-server.log ↲

Create boot script:
-Boot script is used to start-up and shut down the server automatically

- Copy code from link and type command sudo nano /etc/init.d/odoo-server ↲ and paste

Changes in some places like

# Specify the user name (Default: odoo).

USER=sagar(name of ubuntu user)

DAEMON=/opt/odoo/openerp-server #(path of odoo server)

- Set access right sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/odoo-server ↲

- sudo chown root: /etc/init.d/odoo-server ↲

Start Server:

sudo /etc/init.d/odoo-server start ↲

                   OR

sudo service odoo-server start ↲

Automating Odoo start-up and shutdown :

- Create script that start and stop automatically with the Ubuntu Server, to do that type

sudo update-rc.d odoo-server defaults ↲