DXA 1.2 RichText Internal Component Link Resolving

Question

• I am Using DXA 1.2 version (.Net is delivery side).
• Tridion 2013 SP1 i am using
• I have a rich text field in my schema, in that i have added a Internal Component Link (which has published page).
• I understand that for the rich text field, i can use "RichText" or "string" type in model. (I tried both).
• When i run/debug the solution from my local machine, it is failing and the error is as below from "DefaultModelBuilder.cs" line 662
• Originally error caused from the class "TridionLinkResolver.cs" and method "ResolveBinaryLink" line 88

Throwable was caught

Stack Trace is:

        java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
            at com.tridion.linking.AbstractLink.<init>(AbstractLink.java:69)
            at com.tridion.linking.BinaryLink.<init>(BinaryLink.java:67)
        Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Fatal error, unable to load the Linking Module
            at com.tridion.linking.Linking.reloadInstance(Linking.java:117)
            at com.tridion.linking.Linking.<clinit>(Linking.java:87)
            ... 2 more
        Caused by: com.tridion.configuration.ConfigurationException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 36; columnNumber: 2; The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed.
            at com.tridion.configuration.XMLConfigurationReader.readConfiguration(XMLConfigurationReader.java:125)
            at com.tridion.configuration.XMLConfigurationReader.readConfiguration(XMLConfigurationReader.java:97)
            at com.tridion.configuration.XMLConfigurationReader.readConfiguration(XMLConfigurationReader.java:83)
            at com.tridion.Controller.loadConfiguration(Controller.java:404)
            at com.tridion.Controller.<init>(Controller.java:116)
            at com.tridion.Controller.<init>(Controller.java:161)
            at com.tridion.linking.Linking.<init>(Linking.java:106)
            at com.tridion.linking.Linking.reloadInstance(Linking.java:113)
            ... 3 more
        Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 36; columnNumber: 2; The markup in the document following the root element must be well-formed.
            at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
            at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
            at com.tridion.configuration.XMLConfigurationReader.readConfiguration(XMLConfigurationReader.java:119)
            ... 10 more
           at Codemesh.JuggerNET.JavaClass.ThrowException(Exception ex)
           at Codemesh.JuggerNET.NTypeValue.Throw(Int64 inst)
           at Codemesh.JuggerNET.JavaClass.ThrowTypedException(Int64 inst)
           at Codemesh.JuggerNET.JavaMethod.CallObject(JavaProxy jpo, JavaMethodArguments args)
           at Com.Tridion.Linking.BinaryLink..ctor(Int32 publicationId)
           at Tridion.ContentDelivery.Web.Linking.BinaryLink..ctor(Int32 publicationId)
           at Sdl.Web.Tridion.Linking.TridionLinkResolver.ResolveBinaryLink(TcmUri tcmUri, Int32 localizationId) in c:\Code Base\InfoMAX\Dev\Sdl.Web.Tridion\Linking\TridionLinkResolver.cs:line 88
           at Sdl.Web.Tridion.Linking.TridionLinkResolver.ResolveLink(TcmUri tcmUri, Boolean resolveToBinary, Localization localization) in c:\Code Base\InfoMAX\Dev\Sdl.Web.Tridion\Linking\TridionLinkResolver.cs:line 68
           at Sdl.Web.Tridion.Linking.TridionLinkResolver.ResolveLink(String sourceUri, Boolean resolveToBinary, Localization localization) in c:\Code Base\InfoMAX\Dev\Sdl.Web.Tridion\Linking\TridionLinkResolver.cs:line 35
           at Sdl.Web.Tridion.Mapping.DefaultRichTextProcessor.ResolveRichText(XmlDocument doc, Localization localization) in c:\Code Base\InfoMAX\Dev\Sdl.Web.Tridion\Mapping\DefaultRichTextProcessor.cs:line 78
           at Sdl.Web.Tridion.Mapping.DefaultRichTextProcessor.ProcessRichText(String xhtml, Localization localization) in c:\Code Base\InfoMAX\Dev\Sdl.Web.Tridion\Mapping\DefaultRichTextProcessor.cs:line 46
           at Sdl.Web.Tridion.Mapping.DefaultModelBuilder.MapFieldValues(IField field, Type modelType, Boolean multival, MappingData mapData) in c:\Code Base\InfoMAX\Dev\Sdl.Web.Tridion\Mapping\DefaultModelBuilder.cs:line 633

Question:

• DXA Link Resolving will work only from server not from local machine?
• If it is not working from local, debugging entity view will fail when having component link in rich text field. Is my understanding right? or I missed something?
• Now, deployed and tried from server, no error in entity view. But i dont understand why the link is resolving with port number. Eg: https://mydomain.com:48700/mypubpath/mypubpath/mysg/mypage.html. I think link is resolving combination of cd_link_conf+ Broker DB page url (Porotocol+domain+port+path+pageurl from broker). Already page url in broker has "publication path, so i see pub path adding twice)
• I expect the resolved URL without port number as https://mydomain.com/mypubpath/mysg/mypage.html

Answer 1

1. If you properly deploy the DXA Web App (incl. CD artifacts such as license file) on your local machine, all the functionality will work.
2. See point 1. Everything should work, also if you are debugging.
3. DXA Link Resolving just builds on CD Link Resolving. How does your cd_link_conf.xml look?

UPDATE

It looks like the part of the stack trace you initially omitted contains very valuable information about what the problem is: it looks like your cd_link_conf.xml is not well-formed on your local machine. The stack trace even shows a linenumber where the problem is.

I still don't understand why you expect link URLs without port number if you don't use default HTTP(S) ports, but it may be best to remove all Host entries from cd_link_conf.xml; that should let CD Linking generate server-relative URLs (so the entire protocol/host/port discussion becomes irrelevant).