Standardizing your instance directory layout

We recommend that your development and production environments all use a similar directory layout. This standardization will prove helpful when you have to perform maintenance operations, and it will also ease your day to day work.

This recipe creates a directory structure that groups files having similar life cycles or similar purpose together in standardized subdirectories. Feel free to alter this structure to suit your needs, but be sure to have this documented somewhere.

How to do it…

To create the proposed instance layout, you need to perform the following steps:

1. Create one directory per instance:

   $ mkdir ~/odoo-dev/projectname
   $ cd ~/odoo-dev/projectname
   

2. Create a Python virtualenv in a subdirectory called env/:

   $ virtualenv env
   

3. Create some subdirectories, as follows:

   $ mkdir src local bin filestore logs
   

   The functions of the subdirectories are as follows:

   • src/: This contains the clone of Odoo itself and of the various third-party addons projects...