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Daniel Reis
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Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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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...

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Daniel Reis

Daniel Reis has a degree in applied mathematics and an MBA. He has had a long career in the IT industry, mostly as a consultant implementing business applications in a variety of sectors. He has been working with Odoo (OpenERP at the time) since 2010 and is an active contributor to the Odoo Community Association (OCA), where he also serves as a board member. He is the managing director of Open Source Integrators, a leading open source and Odoo consultancy firm.
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