# Error on trying to enable restconf on confd 6.3

**URL:** <https://dmap-community.ductus.global/t/error-on-trying-to-enable-restconf-on-confd-6-3/946>\
**Category:** Other Northbound Interfaces\
**Created:** [January 11, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/t/error-on-trying-to-enable-restconf-on-confd-6-3/946 "2017-01-11T18:14:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![abhi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@abhi](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/u/abhi)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/t/error-on-trying-to-enable-restconf-on-confd-6-3/946/1 "2017-01-11T18:14:17Z")

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Hi,  
I downloaded the latest 6.3 confd from [https://developer.cisco.com/site/confD/downloads/](https://developer.cisco.com/site/confD/downloads/). Following the instructions in the documentation, I added the below to confd.conf

```
 <restconf>
    <enabled>true</enabled>
  </restconf>

```

Getting the below error:

```
~/confd > confd --verbose
Internal error: Startup failed.
Daemon died status=19

```

Any idea what could be wrong? Is there anything I am missing?

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**Author:** ![waitai](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/dmap-community.ductus.global/waitai/32/436_2.png) [@waitai](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/u/waitai)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 6:30pm UTC](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/t/error-on-trying-to-enable-restconf-on-confd-6-3/946/2 "2017-01-11T18:30:54Z")

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ConfD Basic doesn’t provide support for RESTCONF. You will need ConfD Premium in order to enable RESTCONF.

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**Author:** ![jlawitzke](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/dmap-community.ductus.global/jlawitzke/32/54_2.png) [@jlawitzke](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/u/jlawitzke)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 7:02pm UTC](https://dmap-community.ductus.global/t/error-on-trying-to-enable-restconf-on-confd-6-3/946/3 "2017-01-11T19:02:35Z")

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The free ConfD Basic distribution only allows the use of NETCONF in a production environment. CLI is present for development usage only. For a summary of the main differences between ConfD Basic and ConfD Premium, please, see this post: [http://discuss.tail-f.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-confd-basic-and-confd-premium/29](https://discuss.tail-f.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-confd-basic-and-confd-premium/29)