Real Multi Website

by IT-Projects LLC , Ivan Yelizariev , Nicolas JEUDY

$ 341.62

v 10.0 v 11.0 v 12.0 Third Party 68

Required Apps	Website Builder (website)
Included Dependencies	Show • Context-dependent values in System Parameters • Multi-Brand Mailing • Multi-website support in Security Rules • Website Multi Theme • Website Switcher in Backend
Lines of code	2595
Technical Name	`website_multi_company`
License	See License tab
Website	https://twitter.com/yelizariev
Also available in version	v 13.0 v 10.0 v 12.0

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Required Apps	Website Builder (website)
Included Dependencies	Show • Context-dependent values in System Parameters • Multi-Brand Mailing • Multi-website support in Security Rules • Website Multi Theme • Website Switcher in Backend
Lines of code	2595
Technical Name	`website_multi_company`
License	See License tab
Website	https://twitter.com/yelizariev
Also available in version	v 13.0 v 10.0 v 12.0

Real Multi Website

Set up Multi-Websites, Multi-Theme, Multi-eCommerce, Multi-Company on a single database

Version: v11.0.3.0.1

Tested and maintained by
IT Projects Labs
Assitance: help@itpp.dev

Key features:

multiple websites in a single database
easy to add new websites
easy to create website menus
use different design (themes) per each website
multi-eCommerce
multi-payment (different payment methods per each company)
compatible with multi-company
use any domains for websites (not only subdomains)
All features of Email Addresses and Templates per Website module

The module allows to set up multiple websites on a single database and handles requests in a different company context. It is especially useful for eCommerce to make orders for different companies.

Odoo has been designed to switch website by host name, but this feature is not completed and not supported. This module fills the gap.

How It Works

Go to Website Admin → Configuration → Websites menu and add websites.

In the website creation form specify Website Name, Website Domain (e.g. apple.mycompany.local, samsung.mycompany.local, etc), choose Website Theme you wish, upload a favicon and other fields if needed. Also you will be able to specify company name if your user has ``Multi Companies`` access rights.

You can easily create menus for your websites in Website Admin → Configuration → Website Menus

Open each website and design it whatever you like. Then go to any of them and be sure that each one has own description, own products at shop, etc.
As an example you can see 3 websites below:

apple.mycompany.local

samsung.mycompany.local

xiaomi.mycompany.local

Apple Website <apple.mycompany.local>

If a customer open apple.mycompany.local, he can see for example:

Apple Homepage

Apple Shop (it contains apple devices only)

If a customer make an order at Apple Shop, the created sale order will belong to the associated company - Company 1

Sale Order

Samsung Website <samsung.mycompany.local>

If a customer open samsung.mycompany.local, he can see for example:

Samsung Homepage

Samsung Shop (it contains samsung devices only)

If a customer make an order at Samsung Shop, the created sale order will belong to the associated company - Company 2

Sale Order

Xiaomi Website <xiaomi.mycompany.local>

If a customer open xiaomi.mycompany.local, he can see for example:

Xiaomi Homepage

Xiaomi Shop (it contains xiaomi devices only)

If a customer make an order at Xiaomi Shop, the created sale order will belong to the associated company - Company 3

Sale Order

As a result you can see different websites for different companies in your database.

Multi-payment settings

Note that you can use different payment acquirers per each website. Let's consider how to setup 2 different paypal accounts for 2 different websites.

Go to Invoicing → Configuration → Payments Acquirers and open Paypal acquier form. Click on the Action ⇒ Duplicate button to create the second one

For Paypal 1: set Company 1 and provided credentials

For Paypal 2: set Company 2 and provided credentials

Detailed instruction about how to configure Paypal account and get Paypal Identity Token you can find here

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Real Multi Website

Installation

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.

Using dbfilter parameter

For TESTING purpose you can use the following configuration:

dbfilter: ^%d$
database name: example
- host names:
  - example.shop1.local
  - example.shop2.local
  - example.shop3.local

Patching http.py

For PRODUCTION deployment with websites on subdomains you can use following patch. You need to update odoo/http.py file as following:

# 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)]

Then you can use following configuration

dbfilter: ^%t$
database name: example.com
- host names:
  - shop1.example.com
  - shop2.example.com
  - shop3.example.com
database name: example.org
- host names:
  - shop1.example.org
  - shop2.example.org
  - shop3.example.org

Using dbfilter_from_header module

Most flexible way to deploy multi-database system is using dbfilter_from_header (check module description for installation instruction).

In short, you need to add special line to your webserver config (other webservers are supported too - see description of dbfilter_from_header):

Nginx:

proxy_set_header X-Odoo-dbfilter [your filter regex]

Apache:

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

Note, that you probably need to set usual db_filter to .*, because dbfilter_from_header module uses that filter first and then applies filter from header.

Example (we use top level domain .example due to copyright issues, but it could be any top level domains at any combinations):

dbfilter: .*
database name: software_business
- host names:
  - miscrosoft-products.example
  - antivirus.example
  - android.antivirus.example
database name: delivery_business
- host names:
  - pizzas.example
  - china-food.example

Nginx:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name miscrosoft-products.example antivirus.example android.antivirus.example;
  proxy_set_header Host $host;
  proxy_set_header X-Odoo-dbfilter ^software_business\Z;
  location /longpolling {
      proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8072;
  }
  location / {
      proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8069;
  }
}
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name pizzas.example china-food.example;
  proxy_set_header Host $host;
  proxy_set_header X-Odoo-dbfilter ^delivery_business\Z;
  location /longpolling {
      proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8072;
  }
  location / {
      proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8069;
  }
 }

Apache:

<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):
```

Configuration

Enable technical features
At [[ Settings ]] >> Users >> Users menu and activate Multi Companies and set Allowed Companies
Open menu [[ Website ]] >> Configuration >> Websites
Create or select a website record
Update fields:
- Website Domain -- website address, e.g. shop1.example.com
- Company -- which company is used for this website
- Favicon -- upload website favicon
- Base Url -- Currently it's used only for switching between websites on frontend. You must specify entire URL with http:// or https:// depending on whether your connection secured or not, for example:
  - http://shop1.example.com/
  - http://shop1.example.com/
  - https://shop2.example.com/
- Multi Theme -- select a theme you wish to apply for website, e.g. theme_bootswatch
  - Click on Reload Themes button before using new theme
  - For unofficial themes extra actions are required as described below

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.

Convert to multi-website view via Editor

Open some page in Frontend with Developer Mode activated, e.g. /?debug
Click Customize -> HTML/CSS Editor
Select some view without suffix (Website #...)
Click button [Convert to Multi-Website]

Convert to multi-website view via Backend

You need to know so called xml_id, which has following format: <MODULE_NAME>.<VIEW_NAME>. Once you know that do as following:

Activate Developer Mode
Navigate to [[ Website ]] >> Configuration >> Multi-Themes
Choose Default Theme
In Views fields use Create and Edit... to add record:
- Name: use xml_id of the view
- Check that field Theme is set to Default Theme
- Click [Save]
Click [Save] at the theme view
Navigate to [[ Website ]] >> Settings
Click Reload Theme List & Update all websites
RESULT: page with the view may be edited independently

Note, that you have to be sure, that each Website uses Default Theme directly or indirectly (via Sub-themes field).

Usage

For all examples below:

configure some WEBSITE1 for HOST1 and COMPANY1
configure some WEBSITE2 for HOST2 and COMPANY2

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

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Missing Dependencies?

Derick Anderson

on 12/19/18, 7:47 PM Confirmed Purchase

When I download the module for V11 and unzip the file there are two modules: 1) website_multi_company 2) website_multi_theme The dependencies listed but are missing are: 1) ir_rule_website 2) ir_config_parameter_multi_company 3) mail_multi_website 4) web_website

There is server crashes cause of module ir_config_parameter_multi_company, need support

Chandni

on 5/7/18, 3:39 AM

Hello, I need your support, when I try to reinstall this module, it crashes server and coudn't start again, giving error about csrf_token missing. We are not at all satisfied after installation. I traced and found out that, this is cause of value column touch, in that module. Could not understand why that is needed to rename column and drop that column. I think this is a Bug and should be resolved asap. You can email me: chandni.machchhar3@gmail.com Waiting for your response. Thanks.

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on 2/10/18, 7:55 AM Confirmed Purchase

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