nginx auth_basic errors: user not found and no user/password provided

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Published on 2013-03-26T20:28:34Z Indexed on 2014/06/07 15:27 UTC
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I have set auth basic in nginx and blocked other ips like:

location / {
   auth_basic "Restricted Area";
   auth_basic_user_file .htpasswd;
   allow 127.0.0.1;
   deny all;
}

I can login using the username/password provided in .htpasswd but the error log in nginx shows errors like:

user "memcache" was not found in "/etc/nginx/.htpasswd"
no user/password was provided for basic authentication

Any suggestion why this occurs and how to get rid of it ?

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