# Unable to configure 'x-pack-security' under basic license **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** license\ **Created:** [August 7, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-configure-x-pack-security-under-basic-license/194236 "2019-08-07T12:22:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![asad\_ali](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/asad_ali/32/47894_2.png) [@asad\_ali](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asad_ali)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 5:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-configure-x-pack-security-under-basic-license/194236/7 "2019-08-08T05:54:13Z")
Point well-noted,I moved this to new thread as this was getting too long and noisy with log data. > [@Elastic-search SSL certification error, unable to open kibana](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-ssl-certification-error-unable-to-open-kibana/194340): > > I'm unable to open kibana as elastic-search is irresponsive as I made changes to elasticsearch.yml for SSL authentication. On dashboard on webpage i get "Cannot connect to the Elasticsearch cluster". My elasticsearch.yml looks like xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled: true xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true xpack.security.enabled: true xpack.ssl.verification\_mode: none xpack.security.transport.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate xpack.security.http.ssl.verification\_mode: certificate … I had also tested with cert/filename.key and cert/filename.crt but results are same but error here are very different now --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-configure-x-pack-security-under-basic-license/194236)._