diff --git a/biscd/1 b/biscd/1
deleted file mode 100644
index ca91e8d..0000000
--- a/biscd/1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Docker version 18.09.1, build 4c52b90
diff --git a/biscd/biscd/__init__.py b/biscd/biscd/__init__.py
index 8c44899..c257280 100644
--- a/biscd/biscd/__init__.py
+++ b/biscd/biscd/__init__.py
@@ -8,29 +8,14 @@ app = Flask(__name__)
 Bootstrap(app)
 
 def read_config():
-    config_template = {
-        'config' : {
-            'flask_development_server' : {
-                'flask_env' : confuse.OneOf(['development', 'production']),
-                'server_host' : confuse.String(pattern="^\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}$"),
-                'port' : confuse.Integer()
-            },
-            'logging' : {
-                'infofile' : confuse.Filename(),
-                'errorfile' : confuse.Filename()
-            },
-            'message' : confuse.String()
-        }
-    }
     conf = confuse.Configuration('biscd', __name__)
-    valid = conf.get(config_template)
-    print('valid', valid)
-    print('dict', valid.__dict__)
-    print('message is', valid.config.message)
-    if False:#not conf.has_section('MISC'):
-        raise ValueError("Failed to open any configfile containing a MISC section. \
-            Please make sure the script dir contains a config.yml, \
-            or /etc/{__name__}.conf exists")
+    try:
+        conf['config'].get()
+    except confuse.NotFoundError:
+        raise ValueError("Failed to open any configfile containing a 'config' object. " \
+            "Please make sure the module directory contains a config_default.yaml, " \
+            f"or /etc/{__name__}/config.yaml exists")
+
     return conf['config']
 
 config = read_config()
diff --git a/biscd/biscd/config_default.yaml b/biscd/biscd/config_default.yaml
index 90814f3..7fb6fbb 100644
--- a/biscd/biscd/config_default.yaml
+++ b/biscd/biscd/config_default.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-config:
+confiag:
   flask_development_server:
     # Options: production, development
     flask_env: development