Visit www.easyopenerp.com for more info Download our VMWare virtual machine at this address : http://www.easyopenerp.com/machine-de-test-6-1-rc1-a-telecharger/ This tutorial shows how to install the last OpenERP 6.1 rc1 version : Linux server installation, openerp-server installation, OpenERP web installation, some security settings, Apache configuration

1. How to install OpenERP 6.1 rc1
OpenERP server and web client installation on a VMWare virtual machine
(you can apply the same principe for a physical server)

2. Prepare the Linux server
• OpenERP needs a GNU Linux distribution.
• OpenERP is optimized for the Ubuntu distribution
• To test OpenERP v6.1 rc1, you can use a old PC with 512Mo of RAM
until 10 users

3. Other distributions
• The 6.1 rc1 package is optimized for the Ubuntu distribution. Ubuntu
is based on the Debian distribution, so it will possible to install on it
• Others distributions (Red Hat, CentOS...) will need a manual
installation of the dependancies

4. Finish the server installation
• If you install on a VMWare machine, you can disable the error messages from
the ssh terminal with the following commands
sudo locale-gen fr_FR.UTF-8
sudo reboot
• At the end of the Ubuntu installation, it is better to update it before to launch
the OpenERP installation
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

5. openerp-server installation
• We modify the source list with nano
sudo apt-get install nano
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
• Add at the end of the file, add the following line (save with ctrl+x)
deb http://nightly.openerp.com/6.1/deb/ ./

6. openerp-server installation
• Now, we can update the source list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openerp
• At the moment you can not use the web client

7. OpenERP web installation
• We need to recover the last version available on the launchpad (we use the
2225 for this tutorial)
https://code.launchpad.net/~openerp/openerp-web/trunk
• To recover the web client, we use wget command
wget http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~openerp/openerp-web/trunk/tarball/2225
• Now we can decompress it
tar xvf 2225

8. OpenERP web installation
• We rename and we open the folder of the web client
mv ~openerp openerp-web
cd openerp-web/openerp-web/trunk/
• Now we install the dependancies and the gcc compiler
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

9. OpenERP web installation
• Now we start the python installation
sudo python setup.py install
• We restart openerp to take in account the web client
sudo /etc/init.d/openerp restart
• You can now test the web client at the following address : http://yourIP:
8069

10. Minimal security settings
• We’ll see some security settings for your test machine
• We’ll use a proxy Apache for the web client communication
sudo aptitude -y install apache2
sudo a2enmod ssl rewrite proxy_http headers

11. Apache configuration
• We need to edit the default and default-ssl configuration files
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
• After this line : ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost we add a
redirection to https with your IP address by replacing 192.168.0.13
ServerName 192.168.0.13
Redirect / https://192.168.0.13/
• Save the modification with ctrl+x

12. Apache configuration
• We modify the default-ssl file now
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl
• We add after ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost (use your IP address)
ServerName 192.168.0.13
<Proxy *>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Proxy>
ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass / http://127.0.0.1:8069/
ProxyPassReverse / http://127.0.0.1:8069/
SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1

13. Apache configuration
• Save with ctrl+x
• We need to restart Apache to take in account the modification
sudo a2ensite default-ssl
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

14. Make your server safe
• We activate the firewall for the openerp user (created automatically by the package)
apt-get install ufw
• We open the ssh port for no local connexion
sudo ufw allow ssh
• Open the https port for a web client for a safe web client connexion
sudo ufw allow https
• We lock the unsecure ports
sudo ufw deny 8069
sudo ufw deny 8070

15. Make your server safe
• Other ports (webdav, ftp…) can be opened according to your needs. For this server we just allow ssh and https
sudo ufw default allow
sudo ufw enable
• It is possible to restrict listening network interface by adding the following commands into the OpenERP
configuration file (/etc/openerp/openerp.conf)
xmlrpc_interface = 127.0.0.1
xmlrpc_port = 8069
netrpc_interface = 127.0.0.1
netrpc_port = 8070
• To finish, you can install Denyhosts than allows you to blacklist all IP trying to connect in ssh
sudo apt-get install denyhosts

16. It’s finish !
• The OpenERP v6.1 rc1 installation is now finished. You can use your
web client or standard desktop software
• For a production machine the configuration can be improved
(security, supervision, tuning Postgreql…)

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