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LincyTonita
LincyTonita

Reputation: 337

How to download and install ipa file from myserver.com.. in ipad??

I'm creating my own appstore for android and ipad applications. I'm using node.js to run my webservices and mongodb for data storage. Webservices are running in port 8030. Eg: webservice at localhost:8030/webservice1. To put everything in place in my server machine, I'm using xampp server. In httpd.conf file I configured it as

ProxyPass /getapplication http://localhost:8030/webservice1 ProxyPassReverse /getapplication http://localhost:8030/webservice1

This webservice will start downloading a application file in device. This works fine for apk files. But in ipad while I try to download a ipa file, Safari is showing error as "Safari cannot download this file"

Usually I give the download path directly as http://myserver.com/myfolder/myapkfile.apk and for ipad http://myserver.com/myfolder/myipafile.ipa. After going through some links, I changed the link for ipad to

itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=http://myserver.com/myfolder/myipafile.ipa Its showing error as "Cannot connect to myserver.com". What might be the problem?? Can anyone help me sort out what am I missing??

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7163

Answers (2)

Lavanya
Lavanya

Reputation: 621

We would need to install the mime type files in our server.

For IIS, Open IIS Manager. Right click 'Server(local computer)' Select Properties click 'MIME Types' Click 'New...'

Add the Following MIME Types:

.IPA - application/octet-stream .PLIST - text/plain.

Upvotes: 1

Luke
Luke

Reputation: 11476

(comment posted as answer:)

This is because for ad-hoc OTA iOS distributions, it typically requires a .plist (manifest) file which contains the link to the .ipa and other vital app data. Take a look at how BetaBuilder (Mac app, also source available on Github) and TestFlight do it.

https://github.com/HunterHillegas/iOS-BetaBuilder

https://testflightapp.com/

Upvotes: 0

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