diff --git a/files/__main__.py b/files/__main__.py
index b24649b311..173a2b699a 100644
--- a/files/__main__.py
+++ b/files/__main__.py
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ app.jinja_env.cache = {}
 
 app.config["UserAgent"] = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.107 Safari/537.36"
 
+app.config["CACHE_TYPE"] = "redis"
+
 app.config["CACHE_DIR"] = environ.get("CACHE_DIR", "cache")
 
 # captcha configs