OT: How to renew iOS Certificates?

[Dave Kilroy]

Graham (& Chris)

Yes this stuff is not nice if you get it wrong…

By the way, Provisioning Profiles are very different creatures from Development and Distribution Certificates - they are explained well (but it took me about three readings before it sunk in) on the Provisioning Profile (in the the 'learn' tab [or a name similar to that]) and in LiveCode UserGuide)

I won't go into the differences between the two here as: a) its been a while since I last read about them and b) I wouldn't give too much credibility to a guy who can't even sign his code to get it on iOS devices!

However I will say that in my copy of Xcode, if I open the Organizer Window and make sure I'm in the 'Devices' tab I can see my Provisioning Profiles in the 'Library' section (on the left) and see my Developer and Distribution Certificates (including the extra one I can't get rid of) in the 'Teams' section.

Good luck and keep us informed on how you get on

Dave


> For what it's worth, Graham. I totally agree with you. Of course, I'm a rookie compared to you and most of those on this list.
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> I built an app that I'm donating to the SETI Institute (to insure that all proceeds go to them) and so I've become a team developer for them (as well as holding my own). I have spent months on this process of trying to upload my app to Apple to no avail. At this point I am tightly wrapped around the axle, and not sure where to even start for help.
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> Sorry for my rant and sounding so negative, but please do report back on your progress.
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> Roger
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> On Jan 5, 2013, at 7:15 AM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:
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>> 2. There are some actual wrong instructions as far as i can see, particularly in XCode Organizer where there is a 'renew' button when you display a profile which is about to expire  on a device, but clicking on it doesn't do anything, not AFAIKS anyway!
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>> 3. The jargon and the underlying model of digital signing and so on, which I find very very difficult. For example the word 'Certificate' is used on the web site but not (I think) in XCode; in XCode there seems to be only one type of object, a Provisioning Profile, but I have a feeling they come in different flavours, tho as this is not explicit, I'm not sure. There are distribution profiles too: I thought I had an Ad Hoc one, but I haven't found out what happened to it. I feel that there's a game with lots of rules, but all attempts to explain the rules are somehow lost on me. It doesn't help that I find the Apple documentation convoluted and very boring, like your least favourite subject at university.
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>> Graham
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