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authorCarles Pina Estany <carles@pina.cat>2020-11-10 10:15:29 +0000
committerCarlton Gibson <carlton.gibson@noumenal.es>2020-11-10 11:17:25 +0100
commit09dbae21c986514af41098bd3b3d7676a535281c (patch)
tree5e095141a66d0eb781a986846a712be9efbaac8e /docs
parentcc3870c30f0338a09e440430d5dcc028d23f1a02 (diff)
[3.1.x] Fixed #32176 -- Clarified filesystem cache docs.
Backport of a43e2f66d76fddd791ff0b88361faba304447ff9 from master
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-rw-r--r--docs/topics/cache.txt11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/cache.txt b/docs/topics/cache.txt
index 481f7bb606..f8e9f34380 100644
--- a/docs/topics/cache.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/cache.txt
@@ -290,11 +290,12 @@ The directory path should be absolute -- that is, it should start at the root
of your filesystem. It doesn't matter whether you put a slash at the end of the
setting.
-Make sure the directory pointed-to by this setting exists and is readable and
-writable by the system user under which your Web server runs. Continuing the
-above example, if your server runs as the user ``apache``, make sure the
-directory ``/var/tmp/django_cache`` exists and is readable and writable by the
-user ``apache``.
+Make sure the directory pointed-to by this setting either exists and is
+readable and writable, or that it can be created by the system user under which
+your Web server runs. Continuing the above example, if your server runs as the
+user ``apache``, make sure the directory ``/var/tmp/django_cache`` exists and
+is readable and writable by the user ``apache``, or that it can be created by
+the user ``apache``.
.. _local-memory-caching: