diff --git a/odoo/tools/config.py b/odoo/tools/config.py
index 5584002c520..ea030a80f10 100644
--- a/odoo/tools/config.py
+++ b/odoo/tools/config.py
@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ class configmanager(object):
                 rcfilepath = old_rcfilepath
 
         self.rcfile = os.path.abspath(
-            self.config_file or opt.config or os.environ.get('OPENERP_SERVER') or rcfilepath)
+            self.config_file or opt.config or os.environ.get('ODOO_RC') or os.environ.get('OPENERP_SERVER') or rcfilepath)
         self.load()
 
         # Verify that we want to log or not, if not the output will go to stdout