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diff --git a/docs/topics/cache.txt b/docs/topics/cache.txt index f61e3ffbd3..7f710613e9 100644 --- a/docs/topics/cache.txt +++ b/docs/topics/cache.txt @@ -253,10 +253,11 @@ model. Filesystem caching ------------------ -To store cached items on a filesystem, use -``"django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache"`` for -:setting:`BACKEND <CACHES-BACKEND>`. For example, to store cached data in -``/var/tmp/django_cache``, use this setting:: +The file-based backend serializes and stores each cache value as a separate +file. To use this backend set :setting:`BACKEND <CACHES-BACKEND>` to +``"django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache"`` and +:setting:`LOCATION <CACHES-LOCATION>` to a suitable directory. For example, +to store cached data in ``/var/tmp/django_cache``, use this setting:: CACHES = { 'default': { @@ -265,7 +266,6 @@ To store cached items on a filesystem, use } } - If you're on Windows, put the drive letter at the beginning of the path, like this:: @@ -286,10 +286,6 @@ 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``. -Each cache value will be stored as a separate file whose contents are the -cache data saved in a serialized ("pickled") format, using Python's ``pickle`` -module. Each file's name is the cache key, escaped for safe filesystem use. - Local-memory caching -------------------- |