diff --git a/compressor/settings.py b/compressor/settings.py
index e2db3c1..bec7c47 100644
--- a/compressor/settings.py
+++ b/compressor/settings.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ class CompressorSettings(AppSettings):
     VERBOSE = False
     # the backend to use when parsing the JavaScript or Stylesheet files
     PARSER = 'compressor.parser.BeautifulSoupParser'
-    OUTPUT_DIR = 'cache'
+    OUTPUT_DIR = 'CACHE'
     STORAGE = 'compressor.storage.CompressorFileStorage'
 
     CSS_COMPRESSOR = "compressor.css.CssCompressor"
diff --git a/compressor/tests/tests.py b/compressor/tests/tests.py
index c753671..e2c9e43 100644
--- a/compressor/tests/tests.py
+++ b/compressor/tests/tests.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class CompressorTestCase(TestCase):
         self.assertEqual('f7c661b7a124', self.css_node.hash)
 
     def test_css_return_if_on(self):
-        output = u'<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/cache/css/f7c661b7a124.css" type="text/css">'
+        output = u'<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/CACHE/css/f7c661b7a124.css" type="text/css">'
         self.assertEqual(output, self.css_node.output().strip())
 
     def test_js_split(self):
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ class CompressorTestCase(TestCase):
             settings.COMPRESS_ENABLED = enabled
 
     def test_js_return_if_on(self):
-        output = u'<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/cache/js/3f33b9146e12.js" charset="utf-8"></script>'
+        output = u'<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/CACHE/js/3f33b9146e12.js" charset="utf-8"></script>'
         self.assertEqual(output, self.js_node.output())
 
     def test_custom_output_dir(self):
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ class TemplatetagTestCase(TestCase):
         {% endcompress %}
         """
         context = { 'MEDIA_URL': settings.COMPRESS_URL }
-        out = u'<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/cache/css/f7c661b7a124.css" type="text/css">'
+        out = u'<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/CACHE/css/f7c661b7a124.css" type="text/css">'
         self.assertEqual(out, render(template, context))
 
     def test_nonascii_css_tag(self):
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ class TemplatetagTestCase(TestCase):
         {% endcompress %}
         """
         context = { 'MEDIA_URL': settings.COMPRESS_URL }
-        out = '<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/cache/css/1c1c0855907b.css" type="text/css">'
+        out = '<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/CACHE/css/1c1c0855907b.css" type="text/css">'
         self.assertEqual(out, render(template, context))
 
     def test_js_tag(self):
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ class TemplatetagTestCase(TestCase):
         {% endcompress %}
         """
         context = { 'MEDIA_URL': settings.COMPRESS_URL }
-        out = u'<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/cache/js/3f33b9146e12.js" charset="utf-8"></script>'
+        out = u'<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/CACHE/js/3f33b9146e12.js" charset="utf-8"></script>'
         self.assertEqual(out, render(template, context))
 
     def test_nonascii_js_tag(self):
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ class TemplatetagTestCase(TestCase):
         {% endcompress %}
         """
         context = { 'MEDIA_URL': settings.COMPRESS_URL }
-        out = u'<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/cache/js/5d5c0e1cb25f.js" charset="utf-8"></script>'
+        out = u'<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/CACHE/js/5d5c0e1cb25f.js" charset="utf-8"></script>'
         self.assertEqual(out, render(template, context))
 
     def test_nonascii_latin1_js_tag(self):
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ class TemplatetagTestCase(TestCase):
         {% endcompress %}
         """
         context = { 'MEDIA_URL': settings.COMPRESS_URL }
-        out = u'<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/cache/js/40a8e9ffb476.js" charset="utf-8"></script>'
+        out = u'<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/CACHE/js/40a8e9ffb476.js" charset="utf-8"></script>'
         self.assertEqual(out, render(template, context))
 
     def test_compress_tag_with_illegal_arguments(self):
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ class StorageTestCase(TestCase):
         {% endcompress %}
         """
         context = { 'MEDIA_URL': settings.COMPRESS_URL }
-        out = u'<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/cache/css/5b231a62e9a6.css.gz" type="text/css">'
+        out = u'<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/CACHE/css/5b231a62e9a6.css.gz" type="text/css">'
         self.assertEqual(out, render(template, context))
 
 
@@ -385,8 +385,8 @@ class OfflineGenerationTestCase(TestCase):
         count, result = CompressCommand().compress()
         self.assertEqual(2, count)
         self.assertEqual(result, [
-            u'<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/cache/css/a55e1cf95000.css" type="text/css">\n',
-            u'<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/cache/js/bf53fa5b13e2.js" charset="utf-8"></script>',
+            u'<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/CACHE/css/a55e1cf95000.css" type="text/css">\n',
+            u'<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/CACHE/js/bf53fa5b13e2.js" charset="utf-8"></script>',
         ])
 
     def test_offline_with_context(self):
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ class OfflineGenerationTestCase(TestCase):
         count, result = CompressCommand().compress()
         self.assertEqual(2, count)
         self.assertEqual(result, [
-            u'<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/cache/css/8a2405e029de.css" type="text/css">\n',
-            u'<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/cache/js/bf53fa5b13e2.js" charset="utf-8"></script>',
+            u'<link rel="stylesheet" href="/media/CACHE/css/8a2405e029de.css" type="text/css">\n',
+            u'<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/CACHE/js/bf53fa5b13e2.js" charset="utf-8"></script>',
         ])
         settings.COMPRESS_OFFLINE_CONTEXT = self._old_offline_context
diff --git a/docs/index.txt b/docs/index.txt
index c925134..048faba 100644
--- a/docs/index.txt
+++ b/docs/index.txt
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Which would be rendered something like:
 
 .. code-block:: django
 
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/cache/css/f7c661b7a124.css" type="text/css" charset="utf-8">
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/CACHE/css/f7c661b7a124.css" type="text/css" charset="utf-8">
 
 or:
 
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Which would be rendered something like:
 
 .. code-block:: django
 
-    <script type="text/javascript" src="/static/cache/js/3f33b9146e12.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
+    <script type="text/javascript" src="/static/CACHE/js/3f33b9146e12.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
 Linked files must be accesible via COMPRESS_URL_. If DEBUG is ``True``,
 off-site files will throw exceptions. If DEBUG is ``False`` they will be
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ compressed static will be written to when using the default COMPRESS_STORAGE_
 COMPRESS_OUTPUT_DIR
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-:Default: ``'cache'``
+:Default: ``'CACHE'``
 
 Controls the directory inside COMPRESS_ROOT_ that compressed files will
 be written to.