diff --git a/files/__main__.py b/files/__main__.py
index 441c0f4c0..f38046835 100644
--- a/files/__main__.py
+++ b/files/__main__.py
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ app.config["DEFAULT_THEME"] = environ.get("DEFAULT_THEME", "light").strip() + "_
 app.config["FORCE_HTTPS"] = int(environ.get("FORCE_HTTPS", 1)) if ("localhost" not in app.config["SERVER_NAME"] and "127.0.0.1" not in app.config["SERVER_NAME"]) else 0
 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"] = "filesystem"
-app.config["CACHE_DIR"] = environ.get("CACHE_DIR", "cache")
+app.config["CACHE_DIR"] = "cache"
 app.config["HCAPTCHA_SITEKEY"] = environ.get("HCAPTCHA_SITEKEY","").strip()
 app.config["HCAPTCHA_SECRET"] = environ.get("HCAPTCHA_SECRET","").strip()
 app.config["SPAM_SIMILARITY_THRESHOLD"] = float(environ.get("SPAM_SIMILARITY_THRESHOLD", 0.5))