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Sitecore Multisite - Unexpected provider type: System.String. Expected: Sitecore.Links.LinkProvider

Hi Team, Today's blog post is regarding real live scenario which we came across while having multisite solution in Sitecore headless set up. Well, We have had couple of deployments but one fine morning after the deployment we started getting below error on our stagging site (UAT) and in Sitecore logs we were getting same following logs  Exception: System.InvalidOperationException Message: Unexpected provider type: System.String. Expected: Sitecore.Links.LinkProvider Source: Sitecore.Kernel    at Sitecore.Configuration.DefaultFactory.GetProviders[TProvider,TCollection](List`1 nodes)    at Sitecore.Configuration.DefaultFactory.GetProviders[TProvider,TCollection](String rootPath, TProvider& defaultProvider)    at Sitecore.Configuration.ProviderHelper`2.ReadProviders()    at Sitecore.Configuration.ProviderHelper`2.get_Provider()    at Sitecore.Links.DefaultLinkManager.ParseRequestUrl(HttpRequest request)    at Sitecore.Web.RequestUrl.Parse(HttpRequestBase request)    at Sitecore.Pi