You're reading from Odoo 15 Development Essentials - Fifth Edition

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800200067

Pages 548 pages

Edition 5th Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Daniel Reis

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Odoo Development

2. Chapter 1: Quick Start Using the Developer Mode

3. Chapter 2: Preparing the Development Environment

4. Chapter 3: Your First Odoo Application

5. Chapter 4: Extending Modules

6. Section 2: Models

7. Chapter 5: Importing, Exporting, and Module Data

8. Chapter 6: Models – Structuring the Application Data

9. Section 3: Business Logic

10. Chapter 7: Recordsets – Working with Model Data

11. Chapter 8: Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes

12. Chapter 9: External API – Integrating with Other Systems

13. Section 4: Views

14. Chapter 10: Backend Views – Designing the User Interface

15. Chapter 11: Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb

16. Chapter 12: Creating Printable PDF Reports with Server-Side QWeb

17. Chapter 13: Creating Web and Portal Frontend Features

18. Section 5: Deployment and Maintenance

19. Chapter 14: Understanding Odoo Built-In Models

20. Chapter 15: Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances

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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...