diff --git a/dynamicweb/settings.py b/dynamicweb/settings.py
index 1db559c5..5467b559 100644
--- a/dynamicweb/settings.py
+++ b/dynamicweb/settings.py
@@ -255,8 +255,8 @@ CMS_PLACEHOLDER_CONF = {
 
 CACHES = {
     'default': {
-        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
-        'LOCATION': 'unix:/tmp/memcached.sock',
+        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache',
+        'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/requirements.debian.txt b/requirements.debian.txt
index 14452631..3a03540d 100644
--- a/requirements.debian.txt
+++ b/requirements.debian.txt
@@ -45,3 +45,5 @@ libwebp-dev
 tcl8.6-dev
 tk8.6-dev
 python-tk
+libmemcached
+libmemcached-dev
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index fe39b405..3257026f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -55,3 +55,6 @@ gevent>=1.1a2
 
 # djangocms-page-meta
 djangocms-page-meta
+
+# memcache
+pylibmc