Axelor Ver 5.3.6 Installation in Ubuntu 18.0
Prerequisites
Install Git
Install Git
$ sudo apt-get install git
For Ubuntu, this PPA provides the latest stable upstream Git version
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install git
Install OpenJDK 8
Install OpenJDK 8
$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
Install Tomcat 9.0.26
For security purposes, Tomcat should be run as an unprivileged user (i.e. not root).
First create a new tomcat group:
$ sudo groupadd tomcat
Now create a new tomcat user:
$ sudo useradd -s /bin/false -g tomcat -d /opt/tomcat tomcat
Now, download version of Tomcat 9.0.26 from the Tomcat Downloads page. Under the Binary Distributions section, copy the link to the .tar.gz package. e.g apache-tomcat-9.0.26.tar.gz
Follow these commands:
$ cd /tmp
$ curl -O https://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-9/v9.0.26/bin/apache-tomcat-9.0.26.tar.gz
$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/tomcat
$ sudo tar -xzf apache-tomcat-9.0.26.tar.gz -C /opt/tomcat --strip-components=1
Now fix permissions:
$ cd /opt/tomcat
$ sudo chgrp -R tomcat /opt/tomcat
$ sudo chmod -R g+r conf
$ sudo chmod g+x conf
$ sudo chown -R tomcat webapps/ work/ temp/ logs/
Install PostgreSQL
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib
You may also require to configure postgresql server to allow password authentication.
Example pg_hba.conf
$ sudo nano /etc/postgresql/10/main/pg_hba.conf
Replace peer to trust in # « local » is for Unix domain socket connections only. See below
# TYPE DATABASE USER ADDRESS METHOD
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local all all trust
# IPv4 local connections:
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 md5
# IPv6 local connections:
host all all ::1/128 md5
Once PostgreSQL is configured, create a new database user with password:
$ sudo su postgres
$ createuser axelor --no-createdb --no-superuser
$ psql -c "alter user axelor with encrypted password 'axelor'";
A new PostgreSQL user axelor is created with the given password. The password used here is just for demonstration. Use your own strong password.
Create a database:
$ sudo su postgres
$ createdb -O axelor axelor
$ exit
A new database named axelor is created.
Build from source OR Download directory from here
Get the latest source code of the Axelor Open Suite using Git as follows:
$ mkdir -p /tmp/axelor-source
$ cd /tmp/axelor-source
$ git clone https://github.com/axelor/open-suite-webapp.git axelor-erp
$ sed -e 's|git@github.com:|https://github.com/|' -i axelor-erp/.gitmodules
$ cd axelor-erp
$ git checkout master
$ git submodule sync
$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
$ git submodule foreach git checkout master
$ git submodule foreach git pull origin master
Now build the war package from the source:
$ ./gradlew -x test build
After build completion, you will find the war package under /tmp/axelor-source/axelor-erp/build/libs directory.
Deploy the App
Now as the war package is built, it’s time to run the app by deploying it on Tomcat.
Now copy the built WAR file « axelor-erp-5.3.6.war » from /tmp/axelor-source/axelor-erp/build/libs to this directory « /opt/tomcat/webapps/ROOT »
$ cd /opt/tomcat/webapps/ROOT
$ rm -r *
$ sudo cp /tmp/axelor-source/axelor-erp/build/libs/axelor-erp-5.3.6.war /opt/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/ROOT.war
$ sudo jar xvf ROOT.war
Now change the /opt/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/application.properties by editing the file as follow:
$ sudo nano /opt/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/application.properties
However, you have to provide database settings like this or if you have set it up with different database name or user name and password:
db.default.driver = org.postgresql.Driver
db.default.ddl = update
db.default.url = jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/axelor
db.default.user = axelor
db.default.password = axelor
Create Tomcat systemd Service File
We want to be able to run Tomcat as a service, so we will set up systemd service file.
Tomcat needs to know where Java is installed. This path is commonly referred to as “JAVA_HOME”. The easiest way to look up that location is by running this command:
$ sudo update-java-alternatives -l
It should display this
Output
java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64 1081 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64
Your JAVA_HOME is the output from the last column. Given the example above, the correct JAVA_HOME for your server would be:
JAVA_HOME
/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64
With this piece of information, we can create the systemd service file. Open a file called tomcat.service in the /etc/systemd/system directory by typing:
$ sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service
Paste the following contents into your service file. Modify the value of JAVA_HOME if necessary to match the value you found on your system « /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64 » DONE for you 
. You may also want to modify the memory allocation settings that are specified in CATALINA_OPTS :
/etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service
[Unit]
Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
Environment=JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64
Environment=CATALINA_PID=/opt/tomcat/temp/tomcat.pid
Environment=CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat
Environment=CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat
Environment='CATALINA_OPTS=-Xms512M -Xmx1024M -server -XX:+UseParallelGC'
Environment='JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom'
ExecStart=/opt/tomcat/bin/startup.sh
ExecStop=/opt/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh
User=root
Group=tomcat
UMask=0007
RestartSec=10
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
When you are finished, save and close the file.
Next, reload the systemd daemon so that it knows about our service file:
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
Start the Tomcat service by typing:
sudo systemctl start tomcat
Double check that it started without errors by typing:
sudo systemctl status tomcat
After a short time you can access the application at: http://IP-ADDRESS:8080
While waiting for the application to come up you can check the log file « catalina.out » located in /opt/tomcat/logs.
$ sudo nano /opt/tomcat/logs/catalina.out
If you want to run the application with port 80 "without 8080. Note: make sure no other http services is running.
Edit the file /opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml as follow:
$ sudo nano /opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml
and replace this par of the file the port from 8080 to 80
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
connectionTimeout="20000"
redirectPort="8443" />
That’s all folk good luck and hope it will work for you. If not give me a buzz