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user3034944

Reputation: 1741

Create distribution profile from .p12 certificate iOS

I have received a .p12 certificate from my Client. I have installed it to my KeyChain. I need to create a distribution provisioning using this and sign my app ipa with it.

How can I create the distribution profile using this information? Any help is appreciated

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1147

Answers (1)

wottle
wottle

Reputation: 13619

You cannot create a distribution profile from a certificate and private key. The provisioning profiles are created on Apple's developer site and must reference one or more certificate to be used with the profile.

You will need to either need to have the account owner create / download the profile from the developer site and send it to you, or grant you access as an admin on their team. Also, before you request the iOS distribution profile from your client, make sure you also check that the .p12 file that was sent contains the certificate and the private key for the cert. Without the private key, you won't be able to sign, even if you get the profile.

The 4 key pieces of code signing for iOS are the certificate, the private key for the certificate, the provisioning profile, and the entitlements. If you are missing any of these, or if they are out of sync, you will run into problems. The private key is exactly what it says - private. Apple does not have, nor does it want to store the private key. That is kept by the app owner. Apple will generate and allow you to download your certificate based off that private key (you share with them a cert signing request to generate the cert off of your key). Similarly, you can generate / download existing provisioning profiles from Apple's dev site. Finally, the entitlements in your app must match the entitlements granted on your profile. Those are assigned to your app, and the application's project settings requests access to services - this much match what is requested as part of the app ID / profile on Apple's dev site. So those are the key components; from your question, hopefully you can get your client to send you the provisioning profile. Also, you could potentially run into problems with out of sync entitements, if you need to do anything with additional services, like iCloud, if the client hasn't configured those properly for you.

Upvotes: 2

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