Title: move cache location?
Last modified: July 13, 2023

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# move cache location?

 *  Resolved [alx359](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alx359/)
 * (@alx359)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-cache-location/)
 * I’d like to move the cache directory to `wp-content/cache/wp-cloudflare-super-
   page-cache` as among other things, it makes backup exclusions simpler to manage,
   and in general is tidier that way. Most optimization plugins I’ve tested cache
   their stuff in there anyway. Is that possible, or even considered?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [iSaumya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isaumya/)
 * (@isaumya)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-cache-location/#post-16896095)
 * Hi [@alx359](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alx359/),
   Unfortunately, it 
   won’t be possible. As I’ve already tried to do it once before and it caused many
   issues across multiple hosting platforms and also many compatibility issues with
   other plugins. I’m really sorry.
 *  Thread Starter [alx359](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alx359/)
 * (@alx359)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-cache-location/#post-16897423)
 * Hey [@isaumya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isaumya/) , thanks for answering.
   Bummer.
 * For the the sake of curiosity, what kind of issues did you encounter? `wp-cloudflare-
   super-page-cache` seems like an arbitrary chosen folder to contain the file cache,
   with no direct exposure to the outside world. Thought about it a bit and couldn’t
   figure out a scenario that moving it somewhere else could be a problem. Cheers.
 *  Plugin Contributor [iSaumya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isaumya/)
 * (@isaumya)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-cache-location/#post-16900243)
 * Hi [@alx359](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alx359/),
   While implementing
   this I’ve encountered many issues across hosting platform and installations. 
   In some cases hosting companies are hard setting the permission of the `/cache/`
   folder, so we cannot perform our tasks properly.
 * In some cases, there are other cache/optimization plugins, when they are being
   installed on the site, they are deleting everything from the `/cache/` folder
   so that only their stuff will be there in the folder and so on…
 *  Thread Starter [alx359](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alx359/)
 * (@alx359)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-cache-location/#post-16900306)
 * I see, that makes sense, thanks [@isaumya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isaumya/).
 * Still, as I manage my own VPS and use a selected set of plugins that write to/
   cache (think only Autoptimize atm), think there would be a case to be made where
   moving to the cache folder wouldn’t be of much concern. So hope the team would(
   re-)consider making this a configurable option at some future version. Cheers.
 *  Plugin Contributor [iSaumya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isaumya/)
 * (@isaumya)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-cache-location/#post-16900344)
 * Hi [@alx359](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alx359/),
   You have to understand
   that as this plugin is used by many people, any changes I make, I have to consider
   every possible scenario. If you are concerned about backup, you can easily exclude
   this plugin like the cache folder from your backups.

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 * Last activity: [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/move-cache-location/#post-16900344)
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