Configuring the Odoo server options
The Odoo server supports several options. To see all the available options, use --help
:
(env15) $ odoo --help
We will review the most relevant options in the following sections. Let's start by looking at how to use configuration files.
Odoo server configuration files
Most of the options can be saved in a configuration file. By default, Odoo will use the .odoorc
file. In Linux systems, the default location is in the home
directory ($HOME
), while in the Windows distribution, it is in the same directory as the Odoo executable.
Note
In older Odoo/OpenERP versions, the name for the default configuration file was .openerp-serverrc
. For backward compatibility, Odoo will still use this if it's present and no .odoorc
file is found.
In a clean installation, the .odoorc
configuration file is not automatically created. We should use the --save
option to create the default configuration file, if it doesn't exist yet, and store...