Dependencies

apt-get install ruby-compass
gem install compass bootstrap-sass

Odoo version

Please use up-to-date version of odoo or at least be sure, that your odoo has following updates:

• 26 Jun 2018: https://github.com/odoo/odoo/commit/5cecd0a197eba847e4a71bea3a31584d2b88ea6b

Additional modules

Due to technical reasons some multi-website features are located in separate modules, install them depending on your needs:

• if you use website_sale (eCommerce) module, then install Real Multi Website (eCommerce extension) too
• if you use website_portal (Portal) module, then install Real Multi Website (portal extension) too

Domain Names

You will be able to use any website domain names (not only subdomains), e.g. shop1.com, shop2.com, etc. In this case you need to setup DNS entries on your DNS hosting provider.

For example:

• shop1.com:

  @   A   your_server_ip_address
  

• shop2.com:

  @   A   your_server_ip_address
  

Web Server

Your webserver (e.g. Apache or Nginx) must pass header Host to odoo, otherwise there is no way to define which website is used. Required configuration for Nginx and Apache looks as following:

Nginx:

proxy_set_header Host $host;

Apache:

ProxyPreserveHost On

Single database deployment

No updates in odoo config is required if you use only one database.

Multi database deployment

For multi-database instance odoo has to know which database to use when handle new request without session information. There are two ways to do it:

• Let user select database manually (bad user experience)
• Take database depending on host name (prefered)

In the latter case dbfilter is usually used, though it's not flexible enough.

# updated version of db_filter
def db_filter(dbs, httprequest=None):
    httprequest = httprequest or request.httprequest
    h = httprequest.environ.get('HTTP_HOST', '').split(':')[0]
    d, _, r = h.partition('.')
    t = r
    if d == "www" and r:
        d, _, t = r.partition('.')
    r = odoo.tools.config['dbfilter'].replace('%h', h).replace('%d', d).replace('%t', t)
    dbs = [i for i in dbs if re.match(r, i)]

proxy_set_header X-Odoo-dbfilter [your filter regex]

Header add X-ODOO_DBFILTER [your filter regex]
RequestHeader add X-ODOO_DBFILTER [your filter regex]

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName miscrosoft-products.example antivirus.example android.antivirus.example
            ProxyPreserveHost On
            Header add X-ODOO_DBFILTER "software_business"
    RequestHeader add X-ODOO_DBFILTER "software_business"
            ProxyPass /   http://127.0.0.1:8069/
            ProxyPassReverse /   http://127.0.0.1:8069/
            ProxyPass /longpolling/   http://127.0.0.1:8072/longpolling/
            ProxyPassReverse /longpolling/   http://127.0.0.1:8072/longpolling/
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName pizzas.example china-food.example
            ProxyPreserveHost On
            Header add X-ODOO_DBFILTER "delivery_business"
    RequestHeader add X-ODOO_DBFILTER "delivery_business"
    ProxyPass /   http://127.0.0.1:8069/
            ProxyPassReverse /   http://127.0.0.1:8069/
            ProxyPass /longpolling/   http://127.0.0.1:8072/longpolling/
            ProxyPassReverse /longpolling/   http://127.0.0.1:8072/longpolling/
</VirtualHost>

Odoo.sh deployment

In the manager of your domain name registrar you need to add CNAME records for your domains (subdomains), for example:

• Create a CNAME record shop1.example.org pointing to <yourdatabase>.odoo.com
• Create a CNAME record shop2.example.org pointing to <yourdatabase>.odoo.com
• Create a CNAME record example.com pointing to <yourdatabase>.odoo.com

Similar for dev and staging database, but use corresponding domain in odoo.com, e.g. mywebsite-master-staging-12345689.dev.odoo.com

Translation issue

Check this section if you use translations in odoo.

Odoo may have wrong translations, which leads to the error Translation is not valid. You need either fix the translations or apply following workaround:

• open file odoo/addons/base/ir/ir_translation.py

• comment out @api.constraints... near def _check_value, that is you shall get something like this (pay attention to # symbol):

  #@api.constrains('type', 'name', 'value')
  def _check_value(self):
      for trans in self.with_context(lang=None):
  

Website Menus

You can edit, duplicate or create new menu at [[ Website ]] >> Configuration >> Menus -- pay attention to fields Website, Parent Menu. In most cases, Parent Menu is a Top Menu (i.e. menu record without Parent Menu value). If a website doesn't have Top Menu you need to create one.

Note. Odoo doesn't share Website Menus (E.g. Homepage, Shop, Contact us, etc.) between websites. So, you need to have copies of them.

Multi-theme

After installing theme, navigate to [[ Website ]] >> Configuration >> Multi-Themes. Check that the theme is presented in the list, otherwise add one.

Note: themes that depend on theme_common don't work in demo installation. To avoid this, you have to create database without demo data or comment out demo files in __manifest__.py file of theme_common module like this:

'demo': [
     # 'demo/demo.xml',
  ],

Convert view to multi-website view

When you have custom module which adds some page, you can easily convert to a multi-website view, i.e. it will have different versions of the page per each website. There are two ways to do that.

Steps for Website

• open HOST1/
• add Text block "text1" to Home Page
• open HOST2/ -- you don't see "text1"
• add Text block "text2" to Home Page
• open HOST1/ -- you see "text1" and don't see "text2"

The same works if you create new page, new menu

Steps for eCommerce

• install website_shop (eCommerce) module
• open Invoicing >> Configuration >> Payments Acquirers and create payments acquirers per each company
  • use [Action] -> Duplicate button
  • don't forget to click [Unpublished On Website] button to activate it
• open [[ Sales ]] >> Products and create product per each company if they don't exist. If a product doesn't belong to any company (i.e. "Company" field is empty), this product will be available on each website you created.
• open HOST1/shop, make order, open backend -- created order belongs to COMPANY1
• open HOST2/shop, make order, open backend -- created order belongs to COMPANY2

Multi-payment

Note that you are able to use different payment acquiers per each company.

E.g. to use different Paypal accounts for different websites you need to make the following steps:

• go to [[ Invoicing ]] >> Configuration >> Payments Acquirers
• open Paypal acquirer and duplicate it by clicking [Action] -> Duplicate
• for the first one set Company 1, for the second - Company 2
• specify the credentials provided for each acquirer:
  • Paypal Email ID
  • Paypal Merchant ID
  • Paypal PDT Token

Follow the instruction to know how to configure Paypal account and get Paypal Identity Token