title: Configuring Hbase standalone mode with Apache Nutch : java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not a host:port pair
body: <p>I got the following error while I running the below command in apache Nutch 2.1 and hbase 0.94.3. </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Exception in thread "main" org.apache.gora.util.GoraException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Not a host:port pair:</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Below I have paste my hbase-site.xml configuration  </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;code&gt;
     &lt;property&gt;
          &lt;name&gt;hbase.rootdir&lt;/name&gt;
          &lt;value&gt;file:///home/data/&lt;/value&gt;
    &lt;/property&gt;
    &lt;property&gt;
      &lt;name&gt;hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir&lt;/name&gt;
      &lt;value&gt;/home/data/zookeeper&lt;/value&gt;
    &lt;/property&gt;
  &lt;/code&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can you please suggest me to proceed further? </p>