My Apple Certificate had expired. So i went in the Developer's Provisioning Area and Revoked My certificate. I deleted my old certificate, and old provisioning profiles.
Upon notification from my Team Lead. I downloaded the new Developer Certificate to my Mac and Dragged it into KeyChain Access. Now it shows my certificate as valid. I re-downloaded the provisioning profile for my App. and Dragged it into XCode4. The Organizer shows it to be valid but with a warning
XCode Could not find a valid private key/certificate pair for this profile in the keychain.
Have i done something wrong in my approach.
I am able to run my app on the iPAD and debug it too. But i somehow sense an issue in the above statement.
Please Help.
If you didn't recreate the provisioning profile with the new developer certificate (i.e. if you downloaded the old profile) then I think this is the problem - you will need to create a new profile with your new certificate.
You did to get the certificate key/pair from your team leader. Apple does this weird thing where it actually signs it's certificate with a "password" in order to use the certificate you have to have the "password". That's why you get XCode Could not find a valid private key/certificate pair for this profile in the keychain. I had the same thing, you can't just download the new certificate :(. If I can find the documentation of Apple that says how to do this I will post it in an edit.
Ok here is the docs: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Xcode/Conceptual/ios_development_workflow/10-Configuring_Development_and_Distribution_Assets/identities_and_devices.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007959-CH4-SW2
It is under "Provisioning a Device for Development", I Hope this helps!
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For APN's i'm following raywenderlich tutorial from here
i already have developer certificate installed in xcode, when i create AppId and configure it to push notification and create certificate(SSL) it adds a development certificate under certificate section..it's Ok.when i go to create provisioning profile it shows me only one certificate to choose(not newly created APN certificate). i created profile with that certificate but whenever i go to install it, it say "valid signing identity not found".
Please note that I've installed both iOS Development and APNs Development iOS certificates in xcode. I've searched similar question on stackoverfllow but still no luck.What I'm doing wrong?
I'm not sure what you are doing wrong. But here is the general procedure:
Go to developer.apple.com and login
Go to Certificates, Identifiers and profiles
Create a certificates for iOS app development and APNS. For creating a certificate you need to upload a CSR (use Keychain Access to do this) from your Mac. Once you upload the CSR from your Mac, download the App and APNS certificates to your machine - If you don't upload the CSR from your machine, you will get a valid signing identity not found error.
Points to remember:
When creating APNS certificate, chooose the appropriate App ID. By choosing wrong ID push notifications wont work.
When creating the provisioning profile, choose the App certificate you created in the above steps.
Thats the gist, you should be able to figure out things I missed by following on screen instructions.
I got the solution private key(.p12 file) was missing in keychain.
Can I have more than one Distribution Certificate? I am developing an app but the current certificate was not created by me and is for another app. That app and cert was done by someone else who is no longer here.
I downloaded the vert, but in the organizer it tells me, Valid signing identity not found.
What am I to do?
Thanks for the help.
The error is shown, because a valid Signing Identity is not found. The Apple Documentation clearly describes how to export/import it. You should ask the certificate's creator to export his own copy of the certificate (because it can't be re-downloaded from the iOS Dev Center), then you can import and use it.
There's a difference between certificates and provisioning profiles.
Certificates are associated per account while provisioning profiles are for individual apps under each account.
If you are working with multiple iTunes / Apple Developer accounts, then yes you should have a certificate for each of those accounts installed in your keychain.
And assuming your app has it's own application (bundle) ID, you need to have a provisioning profile for each of the apps you're developing under that account. There are different provisioning profiles for distributing ADHOC builds and the Store build that gets uploaded for review by Apple.
It sounds like you need to start with just getting the certificate for the account you want to work with, then the provisioning profile.
I am trying to create a distribution build with mono for days already... I got the distribution provisioning profile and the distribution certificate from our "team agent" and drag-dropped seperately onto xcode-organizer and keychain-access, but still, there's the warning message showing :
"A valid signing identity matching this profile could not be found in your keychain."
and I couldn't make the distribution build still. Any idea which step I made it wrong? Please advice; much appreciated!
Thanks,
ab.yyang
It sounds like you only have the provision file and the certificate from Apple, but not the original private key used to request the certificate.
If that's the case, you either have to ask whoever created it for a copy of private key, or you'll need to generate entirely new keys, request a new certificate and create a new provision file.
open Keychain Access
erase everything in 'Keys' and 'Certificates'
open Xcode and erase all provisioning data
goto Provisioning Portal and revoke your certificate
create a new one, and use launch assistant
If this happen after renewing the DEVELOPER CERTIFICATE,
my fix to the problem was going to the apple provision profile, modify the development provision and checkbox the certificate.(suppose to be empty checkbox near the certificate name).
then, you can : download and install the provision manually by dragging to xcode
or going to Organizer-Library(on the left)-Provision Profiles, and click the "refresh" button(in the bottom of screen), this will download the new provision profile that "connected" to the new CERTIFICATE and the warning will disappear.
If you are building to run on a physical device, you need to be enrolled in the iOS Developer Program. From there you go to the Developer Portal to generate a Provisioning Profile. That profile gets loaded to Xcode via the Organizer window.
Have you done those steps?
I am trying transfer my developer certificate under the keychain to someone. I exported the item. And also send him the provisioning profile which includes his device ID.
He installed my certificate to his keychain and also the provisioning profile to his xcode.
However, The provisioning profile under his xcode complains of there's no Valid signing Identity. Well I already sent him the certificate.
What's wrong?
You have to export the matching private key with the Developer Certificate, you can select both the private key and Certificate and export at the same time.
Does he have multiple certificates with the same name in his keychain? In which case he may have to delete the one that is not applicable for this profile when he is trying to build the app (he can reinstall the deleted certificate later). Also, ask him to delete and reinstall the profile. Is there any more information he is getting with the error?
Along with the development & distribution certificates that you provided, you also need to export your private key as a *.p12 file. When he is importing this elements into the Keychain application ensure he selects the "login" keychain.
Can I use someone else's Apple's Developer Certificate and Provisioning Profile to build and run my application on the iPad ? Are the certificates and profiles Machine Specific ?
Actually I am trying to install my friend's dev certificate and it is getting installed but when I am installing the provisioning profile its showing me an yellow warning "
The main question is that The Developer' Certificate and Provisioning profile can be used on different machines or not ?
See the message, "A valid signing identity matching this profile could not be found". You are adding the certificate in your keychain, not the identity(which is a .p12 file containing the private key). From wherever you got the certificate, you should get the private key exported from the keychain rather than exporting only the certificate.
At the end, like BoltClock said, it is violation of Apple's license to use some others' certificate.
"Error: "A valid signing identity
matching this profile could not be
found in your keychain"
Solution: Most likely that you have
not downloaded the necessary WWDR
certificate from the Apple developer
site. There is a link to download this
certificate in the 'Certificates'
section of the developer portal. If
you do have the certificate in your
keychain, make sure that it has not
expired (unlikely, as mine is valid
until 2016). Also make sure that your
developer certificate has not expired
(these seem to be valid for only 12
months at a time)."
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2220082&tstart=0
If you want to run your app on a device then you have to add that device's id to the certificate.