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Setting Up OpenERP (Odoo) 9 with Nginx

on RHEL/CentOS and Debian/Ubuntu
by Matei Cezar | Published: March 10, 2016 | March 10, 2016
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Odoo, formerly known as OpenERP, is an Open Source Enterprise Resource

Planning ERP web based business software written in Python which comes with a
suite of web apps designed for every business, such as Website Builders, eCommerce
modules, Billing and Accounting, Human Resources, Point of Sale, Customer
Relationship Management, Inventory module, Live Chat and many other apps and
features.
This tutorial will guide you on you how to install the latest stable version
of Odoo (version 9) on a RHEL/CentOS/Fedora or Debian/Ubuntu based systems
with Nginx server to act as a reverse proxy in frontend in order to access the web
interface faster, securely and from standard web browsing ports, without the need to
burden the users to use browser redirect ports.
Step 1: Install and Secure PostgreSQL Database
1. Before you start proceeding with Odoo installation first assure that your system
ships with packages provided by Epel repositories in order to install the
backend PostgreSQL database.
Also make sure the server is up-to-date with the latest security packages and patches
by issuing the below commands:
----------- On RedHat/CentOS based systems -----------
# yum update
# yum install -y epel-release
----------- On Debian/Ubuntu based systems -----------
# apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade # On Debian

2. Next, go ahead and install PostgreSQL database server, which is the default
database used by Odoo to store information.
----------- On RedHat/CentOS based systems -----------
# yum install postgresql-server
----------- On Debian/Ubuntu based systems -----------
# apt-get install postgresql postgresql-client

Initialize PostgreSQL database.

# postgresql-setup initdb

Now finally start the PostgreSQL database by issuing the below command:
----------- On SystemD systems -----------
# systemctl start postgresql
----------- On SysVinit systems -----------
# service postgresql start

As an additional step to secure PostgreSQL default user, which has a blank password,
issue the below command with root privileges in order to change the password:

sudo -u postgres psql

postgres=# \password postgres

Step 2: Install Odoo 9 – OpenERP

3. In order to install Odoo 9 from official repository, first create new yum repository file
for Odoo with the following content:
On CentOS/RHEL Systems
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/odoo.repo

Add the following excerpt to file odoo.repo .

[odoo-nightly]

name=Odoo Nightly repository

baseurl=http://nightly.odoo.com/9.0/nightly/rpm/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=1

gpgkey=https://nightly.odoo.com/odoo.key

On Debian/Ubuntu Systems
On Debian/Ubuntu issue the following command to add the Odoo repositories:

# wget -O - https://nightly.odoo.com/odoo.key | apt-key add -

# echo "deb http://nightly.odoo.com/9.0/nightly/deb/ ./" >>

/etc/apt/sources.list

Install python dependency for odoo

install python-dateutil python-docutils python-feedparser python-

jinja2 python-ldap python-libxslt1 python-lxml python-mako python-mock
python-openid python-psycopg2 python-psutil python-pybabel python-
pychart python-pydot python-pyparsing python-reportlab python-
simplejson python-tz python-unittest2 python-vatnumber python-vobject
python-webdav python-werkzeug python-xlwt python-yaml python-zsi
poppler-utils python-pip python-pypdf python-passlib python-
decorator gcc python-dev mc bzr python-setuptools python-markupsafe
python-reportlab-accel python-zsi python-yaml python-argparse python-
openssl python-egenix-mxdatetime python-usb python-serial lptools make
python-pydot python-psutil python-paramiko poppler-utils python-
pdftools antiword python-requests python-xlsxwriter python-
suds python-psycogreen python-ofxparse python-gevent
4. Next install Odoo 9 software from binaries.
----------- On RedHat/CentOS based systems -----------
# yum install odoo
----------- On Debian/Ubuntu based systems -----------
# apt-get update && sudo apt-get install odoo

Next, start it and check daemon status by issuing the below commands:

----------- On SystemD systems -----------

# systemctl start odoo
# systemctl status odoo
----------- On SysVinit systems -----------
# service odoo start
# service odoo status

As an additional step you can verify Odoo service listening port by running
the ss or netstat command:

# ss -tulpn

OR

# netstat -tulpn

By default, Odoo listens for network connections on port 8069/TCP.

Step 3: Configure Odoo from Web Interface
5. In order to configure Odoo further fire-up a browser and access Odoo web interface
at the following URI:

http://host-or-IP-address:8069/

6. Next you will be prompted to create a new database for Odoo and set a strong
password for admin account.
 Create Odoo Database

7. Once the database has been created you will be redirected to the administration web
panel where you can further install applications and configure your ERP. For the
moment leave the application as default and log out.

Odoo Administrative Web Panel

8. Once returned at the login screen, hit on Manage Databases link and Set a master
password in order to secure Odoo database manager.
Odoo Manage Databases
 Set Odoo Database Manager Password

Set New Odoo Manager Password

9. Once you have secured Odoo database manager you can login on your application
and start to configure it further with your required apps and settings.
 Install Configure Odoo Applications

Step 4: Access Odoo from Nginx Frontend

You can configure the system so that users can access Odoo web panel via Nginx
reverse proxy. This can facilitate the users to navigate Odoo web interface faster, due
to some Nginx frontend caching, on standard HTTP ports without the need to
manually enter the http port 8069 on their browsers.
In order to configure this setting first you need to install and configure Nginx on your
system by issuing the following steps.
10. First install Nginx web server with the following command:
----------- On RedHat/CentOS based systems -----------
# yum install nginx
----------- On Debian/Ubuntu based systems -----------
# apt-get install nginx

11. Next, open Nginx main configuration file with a text editor and insert the
following block after the line which specifies Nginx document root location.
----------- On RedHat/CentOS based systems -----------
# vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
----------- On Debian/Ubuntu based systems -----------
# nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Add the following configuration excerpt to nginx.conf file:

location / {

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8069;

proxy_redirect off;

proxy_set_header Host $host;

proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;

Also, comment Nginx location statement by placing a # in front of the following

lines. Use the below screenshot as a guide.

#location / {

# First attempt to serve request as file, then

# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.

# try_files $uri $uri/ =404;

#}
 Configure Nginx for Odoo Reverse Proxy

12. After you’ve made all the above changes, restart Nginx daemon but not before you
run getenforce command to check if Selinux in enabled on your machine.
On CentOS/RHEL Systems
In case the policy is set to Enforced disable it by issuing the below commands:

# setenforce 0

# getenforce

To completely disable Selinux, open /etc/selinux/config file with a text editor

and set the line SELINUX to disabled.

Disable SELinux in CentOS and RHEL

If you don’t want to completely disable Seliux policy and just want to relax the rules
in order to grant Nginx proxy with permissive access to network socket run the
following command:

# setsebool httpd_can_network_connect on -P

# getsebool -a | grep httpd

Then, restart Nginx daemon to reflect the changes made above:

# systemctl restart nginx

OR

# service nginx restart

13. This next step is a security optional feature and implies the change of the network
socket that Odoo application is listening, changing the binding address from all
interfaces (or address) to localhost only.
This change must be done only in conjunction with Nginx reverse proxy due to the
fact that binding the application on localhost only implies that Odoo will not be
accessible from users inside the LAN or other networks.

In order to active this change, open /etc/odoo/openerp-server.conf file and

edit xmlrpc_interface line to bind on localhost only as suggested on the below
screenshot.

xmlrpc_interface = 127.0.0.1
 Configure Odoo Interface

In order to reflect changes restart Odoo service by running the below command:

# systemctl restart odoo.service

OR

# service odoo restart

14. In case your machine has a network defense line provided by the firewall, issue
the following commands in order to open firewall ports to outside world for Nginx
proxy:
----------- On FirewallD based systems -----------
# firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent
# firewall-cmd --reload
----------- On IPTables based systems -----------
# iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --sport 80 -j ACCEPT
# iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
# /etc/init.d/iptables save
----------- On UFW Firewall systems -----------
# ufw allow http

15. That’s it! Now you can successfully access your ERP Odoo application by visiting
your server IP Address or domain name.

http://192.168.1.40

http://domain.tld
 Odoo Web Interface

16. In order to automatically run the services after a system reboot issue the following
command to enable all the daemons system-wide with one-shot.
------------ On SystemD Systems ------------
# systemctl enable postgresql.service
# systemctl enable odoo.service
# systemctl enable nginx.service
------------ On SysVinit Systems ------------
# chkconfig postgresql on
# chkconfig odoo on
# chkconfig nginx on

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 Comments7
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1. Jagan
July 27, 2016 at 9:55 am
It works well on Ubuntu 15.10, whereas from Cent 6/7, it stucks with the python dependency error. Is
there any solution to overcome?
Reply

o Matei Cezar
July 28, 2016 at 1:26 pm
What error throws you? What kind of dependency?
Reply
2. Rajith
July 21, 2016 at 11:28 pm
Doesnt work!
Reply

3. Rahul Raut
July 18, 2016 at 2:48 pm
How to setup odoo on IPv6 port 80? Is it possible to use nginx to do the same?
Reply

o Matei Cezar
July 18, 2016 at 9:00 pm
Why do you want to setup Odoo to listen on IPv6 on localhost? Use nginx frontend to be accessed
from IPv6 with the below configuration: listen [::]:80;
Reply

4. Matei Cezar
June 21, 2016 at 8:07 pm
You would have to create some subdomains (virtual hosts) with nginx and use redirection, but that’s
tricky with odoo. Why not just leave it all to HTTPS?
Reply

5. Hasan Fakih
June 12, 2016 at 7:14 am
 Hello and thank you for the great tutorial. In odoo you can create a website and an e-commerce
webpage and those usually are public pages and there’s a login button above that let’s you login to
the erp system.
My question is, how can we make the public pages non HTTPS and when the user want to login, he
gets redirected to HTTPS and stays in HTTPS while using the ERP system? I’m aware that he can
setup another instance of odoo and sync the data but this way some integration features will be lost.
Is there a way to do that on a single odoo instance?
Reply
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