We use your Push SSL Certificate to communicate with Apple’s push notification servers. The private key resides securely on our servers, and Apple uses the public key to authenticate us on your behalf.
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In the iPhone Developer Program Portal, click on App IDs and locate your application in the list. Next to it are two settings for push notifications with yellow or green status icons:
Click Configure to continue. If the Configure button is not available, you may not be the Team Agent. The person who originally setup the account will your team agent and they will have to carry out the steps below.
If you need to enable the Development or Production Push SSL Certificate, click Configure. Once the green light is on and says Enabled, you are ready to download.
After you download the certificate, double-click it to install it into your Login keychain. You’ll find it then in the My Certificates category, with a name like Apple Development Push Services...:
Select the certificate, and select File -> Export Items... from the menu. When saving the file, use the Personal Information Exchange (.p12) format.
Save this file without a password (we can handle uploading it with a password, but it’s unnecessary), and upload it – you’re now ready to go.
