diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 162b7aa6b..4c76f15e3 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ icons/*
 cache/*/*
 lock/*
 tags
-lib/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/HTML/*ser
+lib/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/*/*ser
diff --git a/lib/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/URI/3.3.0,05c766101e813c246917b022f97b5e6e,1.ser b/lib/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/URI/3.3.0,05c766101e813c246917b022f97b5e6e,1.ser
deleted file mode 100644
index b0563a082..000000000
Binary files a/lib/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer/URI/3.3.0,05c766101e813c246917b022f97b5e6e,1.ser and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/sanity_check.php b/sanity_check.php
index d0f66f006..b20c57d9e 100644
--- a/sanity_check.php
+++ b/sanity_check.php
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@
 		$err_msg = "config: your config file version is incorrect. See config.php-dist.\n";
 	}
 
+	$purifier_cache_dir = "lib/htmlpurifier/library/HTMLPurifier/DefinitionCache/Serializer";
+
+	if (!is_writable($purifier_cache_dir)) {
+		$err_msg = "config: HTMLPurifier cache directory should be writable by anyone (chmod -R 777 $purifier_cache_dir)";
+	}
+
 	if (defined('RSS_BACKEND_TYPE')) {
 		print "<b>Fatal error</b>: RSS_BACKEND_TYPE is deprecated. Please remove this
 			option from config.php\n";