Comments on: iPhone App Ad Hoc Distribution Gotchas

By: Charles T

Charles T — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:42:11 +0000

Thanks Joris. Your modified tip finally got my ad hoc distribution working after 2 days!!

By: Scott Heaberlin

Scott Heaberlin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:53:28 +0000

Thanks for the .ipa trick; worked 1st try. That should be in Apple’s Ad-Hoc distribution HOWTO on the program portal, but it’s not.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:35:12 +0000

In post 15 it changed the username because I used angle brackets. This is the correct location:

C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileDevice\Provisioning Profiles

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:34:10 +0000

If you want to test installing it on a Windows box with no provisioning profiles, you may also need to remove the mobileprovisioning files for that user. On Windows they’re kept in

C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileDevice\Provisioning Profiles

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:34:08 +0000

I wish I had some tips, but all I can recommend is starting over from scratch and trying again. Delete what you currently have, and set up the certificates up brand new. Might help!

By: Roderic

Roderic — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:08:56 +0000

I’m still getting that my Entitlements are invalid. I have not been able to solve this all day.

I’m using the iphone that I used through development. I’m trying to simulate giving the .ipa to my friends for closed beta testing but I keep running into this same error. Any other thoughts?

By: Joris

Joris — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:24:38 +0000

Funny, I read this everywhere, however on my machine i ONLY get ad-hoc build to work by making a Payload directory, copying my app in there (all in Finder!) and then right-clicking an compressing the payload dir and renaming the file to Something.ipa.
I tried writing scripts to automate this post ad-hoc build but I always had problems with that (signing issues)

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How to Run a Great iPhone Beta Test | Danilo Campos.blog — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:05:30 +0000

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By: Rajalakshmi

Rajalakshmi — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:33:34 +0000

Thanks Eric.. I fix the issue by following your instruction…

By: PixelWrangler

PixelWrangler — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:22:42 +0000

Thank you! I had tried just about every combination of file arrangements and nothing worked. Even when iTunes recognized the app, I was getting a “resources have been modified” error when syncing. This was the fix that finally did the trick.