How-to move Odoo to another server

On the old server Odoo is setup with e-commerce website. On the new server, avoid extra dependencies if Odoo doesn’t need them (web server, php, …).

First steps

  1. keep a TODO-list
  2. create a subdomain, to test your payment module on the new server
  3. install your ssh-key
  4. install some command-line tools : midnight-commander, nano editor, mlocate, wget, screen, unzip
  5. might want to install a graphical web-server admin. I like Webmin, because it’s well maintained, depends only of Perl and use its own web server.
  6. install a networked resource monitoring tool with graphs output, like Munin (or webminstats if you use Webmin)
  7. install Postgresql, create necessary users and configure it. Refer to Odoo install documentation.
  8. install Odoo, setup Odoo with workers and debug log
  9. stop firewall to access Webmin and Odoo, you will configure the firewall later (TODO list)

Setup Odoo

  1. create a dummy database with all necessary modules, add all modules you had on the old server. Test it (might want to include demo datas to test it extensively — check ‘evaluate Odoo’ when you are creating the database).
  2. test your credit card payment module
  3. backup your old Odoo database
  4. create a new, empty, database on the new server
  5. restore your old database on the new database. test it extensively
  6. install letsencrypt Odoo module, first install python-pip, then do 
    sudo pip install acme-tiny
    sudo pip install IPy
  7. install auto backup odoo module on the new server and test it : do a backup/restore operation. First install python-pip and do 
    sudo pip install pysftp
  8. install nginx and set it up
  9. install fail2ban
  10. open necessary ports on the firewall and restart it