Configuring the add-ons path

The Odoo server has a configuration option called addons_path to set where the server should look for modules. By default, this points to the /addons directory, where the Odoo server is running. We can provide not only one, but a list of directories where modules can be found. This allows us to keep our custom modules in a different directory, without having them mixed with the official add-ons.

Let's start the server with an add-ons path that includes our new module directory:

$ cd ~/odoo-dev/odoo
$ ./odoo-bin -d 12-library --addons-path="../library,./addons"

If you look closer at the server log, you will notice a line reporting the add-ons path in use: INFO ? odoo: addons paths: [...]. Confirm that it contains our library/ directory.