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title: "authelia validate-config"
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## authelia validate-config

Check a configuration against the internal configuration validation mechanisms

### Synopsis

Check a configuration against the internal configuration validation mechanisms.

This subcommand allows validation of the YAML and Environment configurations so that a configuration can be checked
prior to deploying it.

```
authelia validate-config [flags]
```

### Examples

```
authelia validate-config
authelia validate-config --config config.yml
```

### Options

```
  -h, --help   help for validate-config
```

### Options inherited from parent commands

```
  -c, --config strings                        configuration files or directories to load, for more information run 'authelia -h authelia config' (default [configuration.yml])
      --config.experimental.filters strings   list of filters to apply to all configuration files, for more information run 'authelia -h authelia filters'
```

### SEE ALSO

* [authelia](authelia.md)	 - authelia untagged-unknown-dirty (master, unknown)