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I am attempting to complete my app build in Phone Gap to create an IPA file for App Store submission. However, I am constantly running into:
"Error:certificate doesn't match profile the default keychain doesn't have an identity matching"
...and I am clueless on how to fix this or what the problem is really indicating. This is my first app build, I created my certificate and mobileprovisioning file in Apple Developers account. I have successfully generated a p12 file from my distribution certificate.
I have been searching the web for days and Phone Gap's forums and even the link of "fix this error here, which takes me to a page that offers no real help, or that which I can make sense of. The information is simply not explicit enough to me to let me know what I need to fix. I've followed the tutorials and examples of certificate generation to a T, but I am stuck with this error time after time.
I simply do not know what the error is stating. I do not know what is the "profile" nor what is meant by "...The default keychain doesn't have an identity matching"
Please can someone let me know what exactly this is telling me so I can begin to know how to fix it?
Thanks
iOS certificates are notoriously difficult. What is most likely happening here is that there is a mismatch between the type of certificate (p12) and the provisioning profile - development or distribution. Meaning, you must use a development cert with a development provisioning profile, and same with distribution.
Steps (start from the beginning to ensure that there's not a mismatch):
Ensure that XCode and MacOS are updated to the latest version.
Extract the distribution certificate from Apple Keychain. Expand the iPhone Developer certificate entry, then select both items - the certificate and the private key together. You can do this by selecting the certificate first, then holding the command key and clicking on the private key. Next, right-click and choose the "export two items" option. You'll be prompted to save the export as a p12 file.
Back over in Apple Dev site, create a new iOS provisioning profile. Choose "Distribution, App Store" as the type.
Upload both to PhoneGap Build and rebuild.
Using Xcode 9.1, after building an iOS app, I want to archive it and upload it to the appStore for beta-testing.
But I get the following issue after clicking the button Upload to the App Store... and choosing Automatically manage signing:
"My Name" has one iOS Distribution certificate but its private key is
not installed. Contact the creator of this certificate to get a copy of the private key.
I do not know why this "private key is not installed", but the Distribution certificate may have been created on a different computer or something. In any case:
What is the simplest way to retrieve the missing private key and install it? In order to make things work.
Up to date (January 2021) (Xcode 10 - 12)
Go to Xcode - Preferences - Accounts - Manage Certificates
Click on the + at the bottom left, then Apple Distribution
Wait a little, then click Done
That's all.
You may want to revoke the old certificate on developer.apple.com too.
Old answer
Step 1: Xcode -> Product -> Archives ->
Click manage certificate
Step 2: Add iOS distribution
You can only have one distribution certificate. It unites a public key, known to Apple, with a private key, which lives in the keychain of some computer. If this distribution certificate was created on another computer, then the private key is on the keychain of that computer. And this distribution certificate does not work without it.
So to use this distribution certificate on this computer, you must find that computer, open Keychain Access, locate and export the private key, mail it or otherwise get it to this computer, and import it into the keychain of this computer.
If you go into the Accounts pref pane in Xcode and double-click your Team, you'll see a dialog that gives you help with this. If you see your distribution certificate and it says Not In Keychain, you can control-click that certificate to get a menu item that lets you email whoever created the certificate and ask them to send it to you. That person can use this same import to choose Export Certificate and can email you exported certificate.
Either way, the private key or exported certificate will be passworded. You'll need to know the password in order to use it.
This answer is for "One Man" Team to solve this problem quickly without reading through too many information about "Team"
Step 1) Go to web browser, open your developer account. Go to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles. Select Certificates / Production. You will see the certificate that was missing private key listed there. Click Revoke. And follow the instructions to remove this certificate.
Step 2) That's it! go back to Xcode to Validate you app. It will now ask you to generate a new certificate. Now you happily uploading your apps.
Add a new Production Certificate here, then download the .cer file and double click it to add it to Keychain.
All will be fine now, don't forget to restart Xcode!!!
EDIT: I thought that the other computer is dead so I'm fixing my answer:
You should export the certificate from the first computer with it's private key and import it in the new computer.
I prefer the iCloud way, backup to iCloud and get it in the new computer.
If you can't do it with some reason, you can revoke the certificate in Apple developers site, then let Xcode to create a new one for you, it'll also create a fresh new private key and store it in your Keychain, just be sure to back it up in your preferred way
People's answer here about having the key from the computer is generated are accurate. But if things are still failing, try restarting Xcode after installing a cert
revoke all distribution certificate for developer.apple.com and the validate your app in Xcode there will be the option to create a new distribution certificate after you can export key for further use.
This work for me.
Just for anyone else who goes through this, the answers above are correct but it can still be a bit confusing especially if you have multiple certificates. These were the steps that I took:
First take note of the date in the actual distribution certificate that is missing its private key. Then go to the keychain application on the other computer and type iOS in the search bar. It will show all of your iOS Developer and Distribution keys so you have to find the right one.
Click the right arrow of each iOS Distribution entry to reveal the certificate and find the one with the correct date and export that one by right clicking and selection export.
Then just import it in the keychain of the new computer and at least with Xcode 9.3 it immediately recognizes it and corrects the error so you can now upload your achieve.
If you are using the certificate in a new computer or not. The easiest thing to do would be to revoke the previous certificate relating to the project. Then re-upload to the store. Xcode will generate a new one.
In my case Xcode was not accessing certificates from the keychain, I followed these steps:
delete certificates from the keychain.
restart the mac.
generate new certificates.
install new certificates.
clean build folder.
build project.
again clean build folder.
archive now.
It works That's it.
i tried all mentioned solutions available on the internet but no solution working on my Mac, then i created a provisioning profile manually on apple developer website from certificates and identifiers. By importing that file manually app successfully uploaded on appStore follow below steps
On Developer website
1-go to this link https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/certificates
2- In profile Section create new profile by using app bundle identifier
3-Download it and save it an where
On Xcode
1-Go to Signing and certificates
2-Disable automatically manage signing
3- Select provisioning profile in its section
4- Archive the app
5-Click Distribute App ->ApStore connect ->Upload->Next-> Then Select Profile from XXXX-app section when it download it show inside this section and now upload it
Click on Manage Certificates->Apple Distribution->Done
In my case, after revoking the old certificate and creating a new one, Xcode was showing the same error (I've done a clean build and removed the derived data folder).
In that case, try to manually manage signing.
After that, check the second field and set the appropriate one.
Note: After uploading the build, I needed to wait for 15 min to see my build in the app store connect.
Adding to the above answers,
If you have admin access on this account create new certificate and use it to publish. I just did that and it passed.
1- Create new Certificate Signing Request (KeyChain Access > Certificate Assistant ) and save to the disk
https://help.apple.com/developer-account/#/devbfa00fef7
2- Login into your apple developer account > Certificates and Identifiers > Click + to add new certificate)
3- Upload the signing cert you created in step 1, click next and download the certificate
4- Double click the certificate to install it. Make sure it is trusted and showing "This certificate is valid".
5- Try to archive again now and choose automatic signing.
That should do it.
just click "manage certificates" -> "+" -> "iOS distribution"
go to this link https://developer.apple.com/account/resources/certificates/list
find certificate name in your alert upload then
Revoke certificate that
if you have certificate you download again
upload testflight again
If you are being stuck on this problem. After switch the computer and not able to upload your build to App Store. Simply click manage certificate on the error page, the + plus on the bottom left corner and create a new distribution certificate. Then you'll be good to go.
I am also facing the same issue in xCode (v12.4) and created two more distribution certificates but nothing get worked for me.
Solution : Restarting xCode seemed to do the trick for me.
I was facing the same problem with Xcode v11.3
Upgrading to Xcode 11.6 solved the problem for me
This can happen if your MacBook has a battery issue and powers out unexpectedly. Your date is reset to an old date and if you opened XCode, it probably recorded that date and that may have caused the signing issue with certificate.
THIS IS HOW I RESOLVED IT
Went to Settings and set the correct date and time.
Clicked on the XCode option on the top left.
Clicked on Quit XCode.
Restarted the MacBook.
I reopened XCode, archived my app and it had no issues with the signing certificate.
I hope it works for you. An upvote if it does.
When building my App (for Archive) I get:
You have a valid iOS Distribution certificate in the Member Center,
but it is not installed locally. If your signing identity is installed
on another Mac, you can export a developer profile on that Mac and
import it on this Mac. You can also revoke your current certificate
and request a new one.
The Apple documentation suggests that its because I just moved computer. See link here.
However I haven't just moved computer. I am simply trying to upload my build to iTunes connect.
My email is associated to two developer profiles that are both installed on my Mac and hence I believe that Xcode its confusing itself by believing that I have already a profile installed.
For this reason I created a new distribution profile from the member centre, one for App Store distribution and one for ad hoc distribution. I then dowloaded it and clicked on it. Despite having done so it does not work.
When I click on Fix issue I get the message quoted above.
I tried to refresh the details in the Accounts sections of Xcode preferences, but was not of much help.
I believe Xcode is messing up with the team ids.
Is there a way to solve this without revoking and requesting a new certificate?
And if not what is the best way to fix this?
I would try downloading and installing the certificate from the portal. Then open the KeyChain app and see whether it appears under "My Certificates" section. If so, that should fix your problem, though check to make sure you don't have duplicates. If it does not appear, then it means you don't have the private key, and it will not be useable unless you can import the private key. You probably need to revoke and create a new certificate.
I always get this message when I try to submit my app to the app store.
Here is a picture of the message:
It would be great if someone could help me resolve that problem so I can submit my app to the store.
Try following these steps:
Revoke your existing iOS Distribution Certificate from the iOS developer website.
Generate a new iOS Distribution Certificate by going to XCode Preferences->Accounts->View Details and then clicking the + underneath the list of signing identities.
Go back to the developer website and make sure all your provisioning profiles are configured with the new certificate. (They should all be listed as Active when you are done.)
Go back to XCode and refresh your list of provisioning profiles.
I had the same issue as you did and this resolved it just fine.
This solved it for me without starting all the way from scratch:
1. Open Keychain Access on the machine that was used to generate the private keys
2. Select Keychains->Login and Category->Certificates on the left hand side
3. Locate the two certificates iPhone Developer: [your developer name] and iPhone Distribution: [your developer name]
4. Select both, right click and choose Export 2 items...
5. Enter a password of choice, save to disk and get the .p12-file over to the other machine that won't sign
6. Open the file, enter the password and you should be good to go.
Having a similar problem, after several days of testing, checking, try to repairing and so on, what worked for me was simply:
Open Xcode's preferences (Accounts panel)
Click on "Manage Certificates".
Add a new certificate.
Then everything started working again.
I also experienced this and fought the process for 4 hours. finally i did the following
Deleted all the Private and public keys and certifications in my Keychain Access
Deleted all Provisioning profiles
Deleted all AppID's - (Probably didn;t need to do this by I wanted a clean slate)
Deleted my certifications on the Developer.Apple site
Created new Wildcard Development Profile
Created new Profile SPECIFIC to the App that I was deploying (So it had the appname instead of *, in the AppID)
Created a new development Certificate from the Website.
Downloaded the intermediate certificate (Worldwide Developer Relations Certificate Authority) since I wiped that off my Keychain too
Created the Certification Signing Request (CSR), followed the instructions to the letter to add it to my keychain access. and Uploaded the CSR.
Once the Certification was added, I made sure to rename the public and Private Keys, and added comments to the info box - so I could remember what I did.
Created a new Distribution Cert by repeating Steps 7,9, 10 for the Distribution so I could get it onto the App Store.
Hopefiully this helps someone to know that you can wipe everything out and start over. I loaded all the certs on an olf Macbook Pro that started flaking out last week. So I got a new Mac Air last week, but Icouldn;t remember what keys, and I certainly didn't remember I had 2 sets of Private and Public one for the Development, and 1 for the Distribution. (If you have more that 1 distribution, I believe you would have additional sets.)
Steve
It is worth checking in Keychain Access to make sure you don't have multiple keys with the same name. Also, very often when I have run into Code Signing issues, the fastes solution has been to start the process over (create new keypairs, certs and provisioning profiles).
Best of luck!
Ran into the same issue and after cursing at Apple , I realized it was my fault.
1.- Go to developer.apple.com / Certificates / Production
2.- Download your certificate
This worked for me thank after trying other answers.
Go to Preferences -> Accounts -> Select the Apple ID you're using -> click "View Details…" button -> then click the plus button and select the "iOS Distribution" button. More details here.
It seems that you have got as far as generating a distribution certificate, so you must have generated a key pair at some point. Do you develop on multiple machines? Export the developer profile from the machine that has it and import it into this machine.
It's simple, login to the user's account (maybe on different mac) which was used to create the distribution certificate. Open Keychain Access and export their private key. Then install it to your Keychain.
My problem was Xcode was not on the Access control list for the private key. You can fix this in the keychain access without generating a new key pair.
Open keychain access.
On the left side select login and My Certificates.
Select your distribution certificate and double click your private key.
Select access control and add Xcode to the list if its not there.
Restart Xcode and make a new archive. It should find the private key now.
I actually just closed and reopened xCode and then everything was back to normal.
I have another answer (in addition to my prior post). Today, my private key expired (as I found looking at KeyChain Access), and a new one was in the list. How? Idk... Maybe from using the XCode "fix the problem" button I was presented, or by pulling an update for provisioning profiles as I described in my other post a new one was created automatically?...
Anyway, I logged in the development center, found the provisioning profile I wanted to use and clicked "edit". I was then able to select "Certificates". I found that the one wanted was not selected. I selected it and clicked "generate" to recreate the provisioning profile. Then I was able to download it. I dragged and dropped the file onto my XCode dock icon. That fixed it!
I've got the solution:
Your company has a Company (Enterprise Distribution).pem and CompanyEnterpriseDistribution.p12 you have to install them as well.
I have a company account in apple.
I solved the problem by:
1)in the developer website Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles
2)under Provisioning Profiles -> development
3)went to my development Provisioning -> edit
4)then download , and double click.
Try this..
In Your "System preferences" select "Security and Privacy".
Click on 'Lock' icon on bottom left corner.
Change 'Allow apps downloaded from' from "Anywhere" to "Mac App store and identified developers".
-Then try to build.
For those who are trying to update an app after some time, you need to renew your Porvisioning Profile in Apple Development Center, and then simply go to Certificates on the left hand side on your Apple Development Center, download the distribution certificate, and open it.
Xcode will do the rest and let you run the app.
Cheers!
For me it is that i have not installed my production certificate. (I have already installed development certificate which)
After downloading the production certificate and installed to key chain it worked for me.
This solved it for me without starting all the way from scratch:
reGenerate file "CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest" by other macbook.
reGenerate Certificates "* Grid Information Technology Co.,Ltd"
reGenerate Provisioning Profiles
I am building and distributing development ipa's for my beta iOS app. I have repeatedly had to add new devices to list of those allowed, and have had many woes created by this. This time I'm documenting and sharing such a problem and the solution...
I added a new udid to my list in the developer center, built an archive and found the ipa was not found in the profile embedded in the ipa. So, I refreshed my provisioning profiles in XCode (to get an updated list) and this error was caused with the private key missing (as depicted in the start of this thread).
I then couldn't build another archive. Further, this created code signing errors when attempting to build the project.
After much pain I fixed it like this:
In XCode, go to Preferences...Account Tab. Click the add button (middle left) and select "iOS Development". This will create a new signing identity.
You should now be able to use the new provisioning profile to create the archive.
Also, the build errors should be fixed. Back in the project, "General" tab, select the "team" and retry the build. There may be some additional permissions dialogs. Click "fix" or "always allow" when prompted.
Note: The Member Center and Key Chain list will become a mess, with duplicates for signing ids, but at least everything works. You may want to try cleaning it up...
I created a new Distribution certificate, then edited my existing provisioning profile to point to that new certificate, then in Xcode > preferences > account > view details I updated my signing certificates.
worked like a charm
this will happen because you have format your mac and reinstall it or you are developing from new mac .
if you can not do the above and have your old certicate and profiles exported from the old mac
you will need to remove the wild card provissioning profiles from apple developer center , and also from certifcates you have to remove the old ones just the general development and production certificates .
then you will have to create new ones and to create new provisioning profiles for the app you need to upload to apple .
you do not need to delete all the provisiong profiles for now , but for sure you will need to create new ones for apps that you do not create for it .
I'm pulling my hair out over this. I just downloaded the iPhone 3.0 SDK, but now I can't get my provisioning profiles to work. Here is what I have tried:
Delete all provisioning profiles
Delete login keychain
Create new "login" keychain, make it
default
Create a new certificate signing request
Create new developer and distribution
certificates in the Apple developer center
Download and install them
Download the WWDR certificate and install it
Create a new provisioning profile and
double click it to install
All the certificates report as valid, but Xcode still won't recognize them. What should I try next?
Edit:
I completely re-installed Mac OS X and from a fresh install installed the 3.0 SDK and still have the same problem.
I had the same problem: I first downloaded my certificates to my small MacBook while on the run. When trying to install the certificates on my iMac... then I ran into the problems described on this page.
After spending hours pulling my hair out like many of you, I performed the following steps to fix it:
Close all your stuff except your webpage that should be logged into App Dev center.
Open Xcode. Click WINDOW > ORGANIZER. Then click the Devices tab and select "Provisioning Profiles" on the left.
That should bring up your provisioning profiles. Highlight one by one (if more than 1), right click and delete profile. Yes, just do it! Delete them all! (I kept making a new one after a new one trying to make the thing work.)
From the first page you see after logging into the App Dev Center on the right side click "iOS PROVISIONING PORTAL" > (do not "launch assistant"). Instead click on the left side. Select CERTIFICATES. You will probably have just one line listed with your name/company - from there click on the right side REVOKE. Click OK to verify that's what you want to do.
On the same page click DEVICES. Click the box next to your device you are trying to provision and click REMOVE SELECTED. Again click OK to verify.
Wait about 2 minutes to let Apple do their thing.
Now click on "HOME" that is on the left side navigation.
Click "Launch Assistant"
create a new app ID - call it whatever you want. Just make sure it's unique enough to know that's the one you just created because the others you've been messing with all day will not be deleted from Apples Dev Center.
You should be able to follow the rest of the Assistant without troubles -- the main thing is you just had to delete your old provision profiles and start over.
Good Luck!
I encountered the same issue. This is because the private key of the certificate does not existing on your machine.
If you are now using a new machine and download the certificate from website:
You can export the certificate from the old machine and then import on the new machine.
If you share the developer account with someone:
You ask the account owner to send you an invitation and become a team member of that account. Then you can create your own certificate from scratch.
If you don't want to handle all these sh*t:
Just revoke the certificate on website and delete the copy on your local machine. Then request a new one. This should be the ultimate way for solving such issue.
Had the same problem yesterday. Now, after signing to the developer portal, for every invalid provisioning profile have a button "Renew". After renewing and downloading updated provisioning profile all seems to work as expected, so problem is definitely solved :)
Update: you may have to contact Apple to get a "Renew"-button, or they removed it -- and the solution is to just download it and add it to the keychain, no need to renew.
What I found was that I needed to drag the distribution_identity.cer file that I downloaded from the "Certificates -> Distribution" page on the developer program portal into the keychain access program, then this error went away.
I solved it by
a) go to provisioning profile page on the portal
b) Click on Edit on the provisioning profile you are having trouble (right hand side).
c) Check the Appropriate Certificate box (not checked by default) and select the correct App ID (my old one was expired)
d) Download and use the new provisioning profile. Delete the old one(s).
Apparently there are 4 different causes of this problem:
Your Keychain is missing the private key associated with your
iPhone Developer or iPhone
Distribution certificate.
Your Keychain is missing the Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
Intermediate Certificate.
Your certificate was revoked or has expired.
Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) or Certificate
Revocation List (CRL) are turned on in
Keychain Access preferences
.
After carefully going through the thread here and checking all the solutions proposed by people, I can confidently claim this, after following the steps mentioned on Apple developer docs for creating CSR and mobile provision file, just do this!,
Launch Xcode.
Select window->Organizer
Click this refresh button and that filthy yellow bar will remove instantly.
http://img.skitch.com/20100820-1ngm8an14c6fm3dt7g6j51d2nx.jpg
Trust me, you only have to do this. There is no need to repeat the process again and again to make sure that you doing it the right way. Just press Refresh, enter your login credentials and it's done.
For me it only worked when the certificate and both keys were in the Login keychain. I had created a Development keychain before, but the Xcode Organizer wouldn't find the keys in there. So I moved them back to Login, quit the keychain tool - and voila, the error in Xcode Organizer went away! This was on Snow Leopard 10.6.2 with the 3.1.3 SDK.
For development certificates you can just create a new one and match it to a profile. However for distribution, like when your going to submit to Apple, you cannot do this and must use the distribution certificate the team agent created. The problem is you need the private key on your machine. It's very simple, however, for the team agent who created the certificate to copy the private key to you, below are the instructions from Apple, I hope this helps.
It is critical that you save your private key somewhere safe in the event that you need to develop on multiple computers or decide to reinstall your system OS. Without your private key, you will be unable to sign binaries in Xcode and test your application on any Apple device. When a CSR is generated, the Keychain Access application creates a private key on your login keychain. This private key is tied to your user account and cannot be reproduced if lost due to an OS reinstall. If you plan to do development and testing on multiple systems, you will need to import your private key onto all of the systems you’ll be doing work on.
To export your private key and certificate for safe-keeping and for enabling development on multiple systems, open up the Keychain Access Application and select the ‘Keys’ category.
Control-Click on the private key associated with your iPhone Development Certificate and click ‘Export Items’ in the menu. The private key is identified by the iPhone Developer: public certificate that is paired with it.
Save your key in the Personal Information Exchange (.p12) file format.
You will be prompted to create a password which is used when you attempt to import this key on another computer.
You can now transfer this .p12 file between systems. Double-click on the .p12 to install it on a system. You will be prompted for the password you entered in Step 4.
The best answer I got was exporting your key, instead of just trying to import the cert file.
When you export the key from the keychain that generated the request, you get a Certificates.p12 file, which rolls the keys you need together.
Then import this into the new computer.
With keys like this, it's probably good to keep a rolled, certificate package file, because many times the "public" key, or cert file, is not enough to restore things from.
In my case, I copied the project from my iMac to my Macbook Pro and found out I didn't have my private key installed on the Macbook. So I exported my private key, copied and installed it to the Macbook, and voila it works! I've documented the information here:
http://www.creatistblog.com/2009/09/iphone-developer-provisioning.html
Just a note with Xcode 4: in the organizer there are two different sections in the left pane:
Library > Provisioning profiles
Devices > your device > Provisioning profiles
I was always puttings my provisioning profiles into 2. and even after cleaning and installing properly it was not working. Then I discovered 1. and finally I found the refresh button. If you select 'Automatic device provisioning' in 1. and click on refresh, then everything got validated (no yellow warning in 2. anymore).
Was facing a similar issue yesterday with our CI server. The app extension could not be signed with the error
Code Sign error: No matching provisioning profiles found: No provisioning profiles with a valid signing identity (i.e. certificate and private key pair) matching the bundle identifier XXX were found.
Note: I had created my provisioning profiles myself from Developer portal (not managed by Xcode).
The error was that I had created the provisioning profiles using the Distribution certificate, but the build settings were set to use the developer certificate. Changing it to use Distribution certificate solved the issue.
Summary: Match the certificate used for creating the provisioning profile in build settings too.
Did you try rebooting your Mac and your device? Lame answer, but I always try that first.
I got it working after re-doing everything and then creating an empty project with XCode and building/running it to the device. XCode showed a window asking something like: Do you want to accept the developer certificate. I pressed "Always". Only after this step I got rid of the message "A valid signing identity matching this profile could not be found in your keychain" in Organizer.
Hey guys, I had heaps of trouble with this yesterday. I went through the whole process a few times, requesting a new certificate request from the authority with the assistant, clearing out everything in the portal, uploading the certificate, creating a new profile and downloading everything. No dice.
However, check this out.
First up clear out all the certificates on the portal to start fresh.
After creating the new certificate request with the assistant, press "Show in Finder", and double click that bad boy. You should get a popup for the Certificate Assistant with a screen showing "Please specify the issuing Certificate Authority", etc. If you don't, just close it and double click again.
Now just proceed through the dialog choosing
"Request a certificate from an existing CA" - Continue
Request is "Saved to disk" - Continue
Save it where ever you like, even override the file.
At the end you should see the magic "Creating key pair"
Run over to the KeyChain access and you'll see your keys in there! Upload this certificate to the apple portal and then go through their wizard as normal, everything should work great now.
There are two different certificates for two different provisioning profiles (development and distribution). You have to install BOTH certificates in keychain. In the iPhone Developer Program Portal:
Certificates -> Development -> Download
Certificates -> Distribution -> Download
Double click both certificates. After that both certificates must appear in Keychain.
The answer is this revoke your Current Development Certificate and make a new one. follow the instructions on apples site on how to do so. Its that simple!! I had this exact problem.
Simple steps to get this done:
Start from keychain (which contains your dev key already) on your computer and create a request for certificate. Upload the request to dev site and create the certificate.
Create a profile using the certificate.
Download the profile and drop it on Xcode.
Now all the dots are connected and it should work. This works for both dev and distribution.
I logged into developer account and revoked the development certificate. After revoking and downloading the development certificate i double clicked the newly downloaded certificate and this time Private Key was there under development certificate in KeyChain Access.
A good way to ensure that this happens cleanly is to clean your login keychain completely first.
Also, a really important step is to unlock your keychain before you import the private key and public key
security unlock-keychain -p password ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Import private key into login keychain :
security import PrivateKey.p12 -k ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
1 identity imported.
Import public key into login keychain :
security import PublicKeyName.pem -k ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
1 key imported.
I had this same problem but, it was due to my setting up "FileVault" on my Mac. I went into my keychain and set "login" to be my default and that fixed it.
"This was a bug on the Apple portal site. They were missing a necessary field in the provisioning profile. They fixed this bug late on 6/16/09. "
I don't know whether they really skipped it or if my eyes were just glazing over but....
Just in case anybody else is overlooking the same things that I did....
just as when you were developing and testing...
1) You need a DISTRIBUTION << CERTIFICATE >>
2) You need a DISTRIBUTION << PROVISIONING PROFILE >>
That is TWO STEPS on the portal in order to get the thing signed.
There I was, having created the developer CERTIFICATE and copied it to the Mobile Provisions folder, wondering why it didn't work.
As soon as I had the provisioning profile in place
* BINGO *
I had the exact same problem and tried everything. For whatever reason the solution was that all my certificates had migrated to a keychain called "microsoft_intermediate_certificates". As it probably happened during an Xcode upgrade I have absolutely no idea why, but it may help somebody.
I moved all content of the Microsoft keychain to the login keychain and everything went back to normal.
I finally got this to work after, like, 4 separate tries after incurring the same problem that was originally posted. So here's what happened, I am not sure if this is an old issue now (2009-07-09), but I will post anyway in case it is helpful to you. What worked for me... might work for you...
start anew and delete the old private keys, public keys, and certificates in the keychain
go through the whole process, request a certificate from a certificate authority, get a new public key, a new private key, and a new certificate. Note: when it worked I had exactly one private key, one public key, and one certificate
Make a new provisioning profile (which utilizes the certificate that you just made) and put that in your organizer window in Xcode. Delete all the old BS.
Run it.
Hopefully this helps.
Everyone here is very wrong. All you need is to follow the steps that Apple provides in Managing Your Digital Identities.
It instructs you to export your certificates through Xcode and reimport through Xcode. It works great, but make sure your username is the same on both computers or it will fail.
I just spent several hours on this fershlugginer issue, which cropped up after renewing my development license. To reiterate, everything was working without a hitch, then (thank you Apple!) it all got screwed up and stayed screwed up. None of the Apple official troubleshooting steps (linked to above) or possible resolution steps mentioned here resolved the issue for me.
What finally did it for me was to delete both my development and distribution certificates, revoke them in the provisioning portal, and then let Xcode AUTOMATICALLY refresh/issue them. Nothing else, in any order, was able to get both required certificates into my keychain with the private key correctly attached.
Here is what I did.
Make sure your certificates have not expired, make sure you delete all the expired ones. Get new ones etc, Once you have make sure all that is the way it should be, then focus on your project files.
in finder , go to your .xcodeproj files then show package contentes.
open project.pbxproj in xcode or textedit.
find every refrense to PROVISIONING_PROFILE and remove the GUID, just leave empty ""
Depending on your project you should have about 12+ refrences, remove all of the GUIDS.
Save file, then reopen your project in XCODE
Re select the correct provision profiles for all possible code signings( they should not all be the same)
Build your project and you should be good to go.
I think Xcode gets confused some how, and removing all the Provision Profiles from the project.pbxproj and then reselecting a valid profile will set it striaght.
If you have new mac you can go to
IOS developer center --> Provisioning Portal --> Certificates --> Development --> Revoke and create new certificate. My problem solved. My error is "Code Sign error: The identity 'iPhone Developer' doesn't match any valid, non-expired certificate/private key pair in your keychains"
What you need:
1) A private and a public key.
They have this symbol in your keychain:
2) A certificate made from the signing request of those keys
3) A provisioning profile linked to that certificate
Let's say you change computers and want to set up Xcode with provisioning profiles again. How do you do it?
Open Xcode, press ctrl + O to open the Organizer, and delete all provisioning profiles you might have installed already.
Open keychain access, and create a signing request which you save to file (when you create the request, a private and public key is created in your keychain).
Create/Update a certificate in the provisioning portal by sending apple this signing request
Download and install the newly created certificate.
Revoke your provisioning profiles and update them with the new certificate.
Download and install the newly updated provisioning profiles.