diff --git a/apprise/config/ConfigBase.py b/apprise/config/ConfigBase.py
index d5acc4af..2c3bd5ff 100644
--- a/apprise/config/ConfigBase.py
+++ b/apprise/config/ConfigBase.py
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ class ConfigBase(URLBase):
                 # otherwise.
                 return list()
 
-            if result.group('comment') or not result.group('line'):
+            if not result.group('url'):
                 # Comment/empty line; do nothing
                 continue
 
diff --git a/test/test_config_base.py b/test/test_config_base.py
index 727b1ddc..6074224c 100644
--- a/test/test_config_base.py
+++ b/test/test_config_base.py
@@ -176,6 +176,18 @@ def test_config_base_config_parse_text():
     assert isinstance(result, list)
     assert len(result) == 0
 
+    # Test case where a comment is on it's own line with nothing else
+    result = ConfigBase.config_parse_text("#")
+    # We expect to parse 0 entries from the above
+    assert isinstance(result, list)
+    assert len(result) == 0
+
+    # Test case of empty file
+    result = ConfigBase.config_parse_text("")
+    # We expect to parse 0 entries from the above
+    assert isinstance(result, list)
+    assert len(result) == 0
+
 
 def test_config_base_config_parse_yaml():
     """