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32180	FileBasedCache accepts relative directorires as a LOCATION documentation say should be absolute	Carles Pina Estany	Carles Pina Estany	"FileBasedCache LOCATION: the documentation says that the path should be absolute, Django accepts absolute or relative.

In https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.1/topics/cache/#filesystem-caching

It says:
""The directory path should be absolute – that is, it should start at the root of your filesystem.""

The code makes them absolute:
https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/core/cache/backends/filebased.py#L22

Enforcing the LOCATION to be specified only in absolute way might have no gain and would have backwards compatibility problems for deployments that are passing the directory using a relative path.

A possible way to improve the situation without or minimal backwards incompatibility changes would be to add a new check (thanks Carlton for the idea).

I'm happy to make any changes:
https://github.com/django/django/pull/13655"	Cleanup/optimization	assigned	Core (Cache system)	dev	Normal				Unreviewed	1	0	0	0	0	0