diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/Error/CriticalConfigurationError.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/Error/CriticalConfigurationError.php
index 3d036f746b855c75c8aec9ca9cbfba05d70803c7..76af87ff8acbcb33fd404e6ff96aabbdc1c50c2a 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/Error/CriticalConfigurationError.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/Error/CriticalConfigurationError.php
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ class CriticalConfigurationError extends ConfigurationError
     {
         if ($config === null) {
             $config = self::$minimum_config;
-        } else {
             $config['baseurlpath'] = \SimpleSAML\Utils\HTTP::guessBasePath();
         }