如何将证书从开发转换为生产？

Question

I am trying to testflight my app, but when I use notifications I get an error because I have a development APN instead of a production APN. My problem is uploading it to parse. First I created a development SSL Certificate, then I went back and did a Production SSL Certificate, but I am having trouble uploading the Production Certificate because It's not an APN, rather a Apple Push Services. I also created a Distribution Provisioning (ad hoc).

Answer 1

Apples Push Notification service is a bit strange:

On the client side: If you build your client with Xcode you usually build a "Debug" version of your app. In that case the registerForRemoteNotification method will create a sandbox device token for you.

If you build a "Release" version of your app the same method create a production device token for you.

On the server side: If you have a sandbox device token you can only send a push notification to that device if you use Apples sandbox Push Notification service with your sandbox SSL certificate.

If you have a production device token then you have to use Apples production push notification service with your production SSL certificate to send a push notification to that device.

The tricky part is:

1. if you only have a device token you will not know if it is a production device token or a sandbox device token.
2. if you want to use release and debug clients against the same server, that server has to use the sandbox and the production service at the same time. And you need a mechanism to decide when to use which service.

BTW: there is a nice tutorial by Ray Wenderlich which also contains a useful PHP script for easy testing. http://www.raywenderlich.com/32960/apple-push-notification-services-in-ios-6-tutorial-part-1