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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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Setting up an Nginx reverse proxy

While Odoo itself can serve web pages, it is recommended to have a reverse proxy in front of it. A reverse proxy receives the traffic from the clients and then forwards it to the Odoo servers responding to them. Doing this has several benefits.

On the security side, it can provide the following:

  • Handle (and enforce) HTTPS protocols to encrypt traffic.
  • Hide the internal network characteristics.
  • Act as an application firewall, limiting the URLs accepted for processing.

On the performance side, it can provide the following:

  • Cache static content, avoiding burdening the Odoo services with these requests and thereby reducing their load.
  • Compress content to speed up loading time.
  • Act as a load balancer, distributing load between several Odoo services.

There are several options that can serve as a reverse proxy. Historically, Apache has been a popular choice. In recent years, Nginx has become widely used and...

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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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