More server configuration options

The Odoo server supports quite a few other options. We can check all the available options with --help:

$ ./odoo-bin --help

We will review some of the most important options in the following sections. Let's start by looking at how the currently active options can be saved in a configuration file.

Odoo server configuration files

Most of the options can be saved in a configuration file. By default, Odoo will use the .odoorc file in your home directory. In Linux systems its default location is in the home directory ($HOME), and in the Windows distribution it is in the same directory as the executable used to launch Odoo.

Note

In previous Odoo/OpenERP versions, the name for the default configuration file was .openerp-serverrc ...

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