Push notification on production mode not receiving PNS - push

I am new to PNS. I have developed one app which is having PNS and deliver ipa to client and PNS coming properly no issues at all in development mode.Now i want to uplaod to App store before that i am creating all new certificate and profiles in production mode and tested from server but in Production mode PNS is not coming?? I have removed sandbox from PHP server side script even replaced .pem certificate name also. but still not working. Any idea what is going wrong??

You need to run a distribution version of your app, e.g. built against a distribution provisioning profile, one of Ad Hoc/Enterprise/AppStore. Make sure the profile has a production push notification entitlement.
You can check this with
codesign -d --entitlements - pathTo.app
look for
<key>aps-environment</key>
<string>production</string>

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Push Notifications wont work on distribution

Ok now I have a problem with the push notifications. I have set them successfully for the developing part and I was receiving them on my device. Now I have the application on app store and I cant receave notifications.
This is step by step what I did:
-I have created a provisioning profile for distribution and connected it to the app id that has push notifications for distribution and development.
-I have built the app for distribution with that provisioning profile.
-I have submitted the app on app store.
-Now I have 2 certificates in keychain access Apple Production IOS Push Service:AppID and iPhone Distribution:CompanyName
-I have made .pem file from both and tested it with both. No notification has arrived
I really have no idea what to try and how to fix this.
I have had similar problems, just a few weeks ago. For me the case was that I had several provisioning profiles left in xCode. So what I needed to do was:
Go to Organizer -> Devices -> Provisioning Profiles
Select my distribution profiles for the app in question, and delete them.
Go to developer.apple.com/iOS
Go to the distribution profile, modify it.
Just clicked "select all" (so I could re-save it with no changes), somehow the profile needed to be re-created AFTER enabling the Push certificate
Download the new profile and install it to xCode
Clean project under Product -> Clean
Now I made a new release and tested it and it worked. Maybe this workes for you as well.
Edit
The red-thread in this answer is that when Push notification in the App is enabled, the provisioning profiles need to be re-done (even though, to the eye there are no changes).
If using Parse, make sure you have uploaded your iOS Production Certificate. I ran into this issue and discovered a week later that I had only uploaded my iOS Development Certs to the server.
Settings > Push > Apple Push Certificates
You need to see something that has a Certificate Type of iOS Production with a valid expiration date.

Provisioning Profiles + Push Notifications + Production vs Development

I'm building an iOS app that uses push notifications, and I'm finally ready to submit it. Before I do, I'd like to test out push notifications off the Production server, to make sure everything is working correctly. Thus far, the sandbox environment has been working fine.
After doing quite a bit of searching, I learned that switching the servers over from ssl://gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com:2195 to ssl://gateway.push.apple.com:2195 wasn't enough, and that production push tokens are different from sandbox push tokens. Instead, apparently I need a new provisioning profile with Production entitlements, new certs installed on my server, and to re-build my app with said profile so that it knows to create the correct push tokens.
So, after going through all the steps, I can't even make a build run on my phone; XCode says
This profile cannot be installed on devices
Here are the steps I've taken. If I'm missing something please let me know:
In my iOS Developer Center, I've made sure that my AppID is "enabled for production" under the Apple Push Notification Service.
Also in my iOS Developer Center, I've created my Production Push SSL Certificate, gone through the necessary conversion steps, and installed the resulting .pem on my server.
Per the instructions, I've create "a new provisioning profile containing the App ID you wish to use for notifications." I've done this by going to Provisioning, and clicking on the "Distribution" tab, and making a new profile. I've confirmed that "production" is set under the "entitlements" section of this profile.
I've selected the provisioning profile in my project settings. I get the message
This profile cannot be installed on devices
and I'm stuck.
Build an ad-hoc distribution version of your app, and install it on your own device. That will use the production APN gateway and certs.
You cannot install an app compiled with a appstore distribution (production) profile on a device. Only Apple reviewers can do that. you can only test push on an app compiled in development mode and using sandbox server.
If you want to test production servers, you must compile the app using an AdHoc distribution profile enabling the devices you want to do the test. Clearly you must recompile and the send the app for review using the App Store distribution profile.

AdHoc build receives no push notifications

I am developing push notifications for an app of mine, I wrote the provider in PHP and it works fine. I was previously testing the push notifications with my dev builds and the sandbox server from Apple and everything worked fine, now I am trying to get it to work with an AdHoc build but I never receive any messages on the phone. Here is what I did:
Enable production push notifications for the App, create the certificate, download it, create the PEM following the instructions here and upload it to my server. Configured my PHP Script to use gateway.push.apple.com and port 2195 for the connection and test it, the connection to the server works as expected.
The Layout of the payload is the same as with the dev and writing to the stream works
After activating Production APN I recreated my AdHoc provisioning profile and verified after the build that in the entitlements aps-environment is set to "production" (which it is)
Installed the App through AdHoc on a device which has not run the app before, I get asked whether to allow PNs, click yes and my server receives the token just as it should.
Tried to send a message (which should get send to 3 devices) through the production environment. There is no error when connecting to Apple or sending the data but I do not receive a push notification on any of the devices.
I am really out of ideas what could be wrong, does anybody have an idea? Thanks a lot!
I finally figured this out, the issue is that if you open a connection to the APNS and send over more than one push notification AND one of the tokens you submit is not a token valid for this certificate (eg. you send over a token that belongs to a dev instance whilst being connected with the production certificate) the APNS cancels the delivery of all the PNs that you sent in this batch. At least that is what I experienced so far, so make sure you always keep your dev and production tokens nicely separated :)
Push certificates for production and development are different. And to make more difficult device tokens for production and sandbox are different for the same device. Cross check if these are correct and Im sure you must have faltered in this. To get device token in Production mode, write an alertview in AppDelegate didreceivenotifications event.
Once you get this token, you will know that it is different from dev token that we are generating which is why you were not able to send notification on PROD
I am struggling with the same issue. I believe the problem is that with adhoc builds, apple will only send notifications to them from the production apns server, try that.
For distribution and release build always use production certificate.

Push-Notification works on develpoment but not on production

So we have a problem with our app. We put push-notification in, and it works flawlessly in development. Then, once we got on the app store push no longer works. By looking at our server logs it looks like the the registration call is failing and not getting a device token.
Has anyone encountered this before?
Cheers,
Did you create a production push notification SSL certificate? This is most frequently the cause. Applications signed with a development provisioning profile will not work with a production push SSL cert and applications signed with a distribution provisioning profile will not work with a development push cert.
Also, you can create an ad-hoc distribution cert and use this to test your distribution provisioning profile. Since you can't run the build you send to Apple for distribution, I'd strongly encourage you to make an ad-hoc distribution build and confirm that push notifications work in that installation.

Not Receiving Push Notifications

previously i had configured my app id for development push notifications it was working fine.
But now i have changed my appid and i have followed the same procedure as stated in the apple docs and i have put newly generated .p12 file on the server side but i am not getting the push to my device now.
i have a doubt for an apple id i generate both development and production ssl certificates and in programme portal both environments shows green balls.
i have created development provision profile after doing as said above. in the sever side do i need to point to production ssl or development ssl for testing.
can anybody have any idea about this
It depends which server are you contacting.
If you are testing on the development side, you have to send requests to the sandbox (gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com) using the appropriate SSL certificate and the appropriated Device Token.
If you are on production/release mode, you have to use the correspondent info.
Another thing that you have to keep in mind is that, for each certificate you have to register your device for push notifications, and if you change the provisioning profile, you have to do everything again, because the Device Token will be different.
Cheers,
VFN
Make sure that the device which you are testing doesn't have both the development profile and the distribution profile. Only distribution (adhoc) profile must be there.