iPhone Distribution Download Issue

Question

I'm having some trouble with the in-house enterprise app distribution that apple provides. I've already obtained the enterprise certificate and got the necessary files (p12, manifest, etc) and successfully built the app through phonegap build. The problem I'm having right now is that I'm unable to download the file from the server I've uploaded it onto. Whenever I attempt to do so from my phone, it gives me this error "Safari cannot download this file". Is this due to some sort of certification issue?

Answer 1

I've experienced a number of problems with the enterprise deployment scheme myself. There are a number of things you will want to make sure of:

1. Make sure you're using the appropriate mobile provisioning profile.
2. Make sure that the server is set up to serve the .plist and .ipa files with a mime-type of application/octet-stream. If it is not, the iOS device will not be able to download them.
3. In your .plist file, make sure that the <string> property under <key>url</key> contains the full path to your .ipa file. This would be where you would download the file through your web-browser. Anything less won't work.
4. Install the app using an application specific URI of the form itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=http://yourserver.com/path/your.plist where yourserver.com is the domain name of your server, path is the path to the directory on our server, and your.plist is the name of your .plist file.

Answer 2

Just went through the same thing. See Yatin comments. since you have the signed ipa and let assume you have all your certificate in order.

1. You want to make sure you can download plist and ipa file. We host ours on IIS server and had to add the mime types.
2. Make sure your install link is an full URL: itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=http://www.fullurl/to.ipa
3. Finally, make sure your mobile provision file has all the necessary device id/UUID.