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diff --git a/docs/topics/cache.txt b/docs/topics/cache.txt
index 14a257b1f4..ce9a982a23 100644
--- a/docs/topics/cache.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/cache.txt
@@ -287,11 +287,12 @@ 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``.
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