But, when i am downloading the same application from App Store or with the Ad Hoc Distribution on the same iPhone device from Xcode, it just stops sending Push Notification with apn_production_cer.

For the sandbox environment, we are using gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com where is works perfectly. However, for production environment, we are using gateway.push.apple.com, port 2195. We have also made sure port 2195 is not blocked by firewall

Thanks in advance!

SSL installed, ports 2195, 2196 is also opened on the server. but getting the same error. Please guide me if some one has fixed the problem.

Thanks in advance.
- Jarnail

Any updates on notifications not received during call on iPhone?

Thanks,
Akshay

This is a very nice article. Just one problem i am facing. this script works fine if i use this manually from web-browser and it sends all the notifications for a same time. but when request comes via an iPhone for location wise notifications it only sends 2 notifications if there are more than two notifications for the same time.

any idea; why it is happening?

hope it helps u,
-Anish

I came across your blog and it awesome.

While executing the apns.php in the local server, it works fine and i got push notification to device with sound. But when i try to execute the same php file with certificate in the client server, it gives the following error.

Warning: stream_socket_client() [function.stream-socket-client]: Unable to set local cert chain file `apns-dev.pem’; Check that your cafile/capath settings include details of your certificate and its issuer in /var/www/pushv2/apns.php on line 26

Warning: stream_socket_client() [function.stream-socket-client]: failed to create an SSL handle in /var/www/pushv2/apns.php on line 26

Warning: stream_socket_client() [function.stream-socket-client]: Failed to enable crypto in /var/www/pushv2/apns.php on line 26

Warning: stream_socket_client() [function.stream-socket-client]: unable to connect to ssl://gateway.push.apple.com:2195 (Unknown error) in /var/www/pushv2/apns.php on line 26
Failed to connect 0

In the above comments, it says that

“We need to generate the separate certificate for linux server. ”

So how can i generate the certificate from the server. explain in steps or give some reference link.Looking forward for your reply soon.

Please advice me on this.

i dnt know whr i am wrong……please help me. ….thanks in advance…………..

yaxita

1. Make sure you have created the certificate sigining request file(CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest) from your SERVER from where you are invoking the PHP script. Most users usually create this file from their local development machine and then upload to iphone developer portal to create the aps_developer_identity.cer. (I strongly believe this is the case with you as I can see you are using a Linux server. Let me know if you need steps to create CertificateSigningRequest.certSigningRequest on a linux machine. )
2. You might have missed any one of the step mentioned above in the tutorial.

-Anish

Warning: stream_socket_client(): unable to connect to ssl://gateway.push.apple.com:2195 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known) in /Users/-Certifcates/apns.php on line 31
Failed to connect 0 php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
Warning: stream_socket_client(): unable to connect to ssl://gateway.push.apple.com:2195 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known) in /Users/mymachine/Desktop/Solution-Certifcates/apns.php on line 31…….

please let me know what should i do for getting out of it ……

Thanks

Warning: stream_socket_client(): unable to connect to ssl://gateway.push.apple.com:2195 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known) in /Users/sapanvasanawala/Desktop/GlobaliSolution-Certifcates/apns.php on line 31
Failed to connect 0 php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
Warning: stream_socket_client(): unable to connect to ssl://gateway.push.apple.com:2195 (php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known) in /Users/mymachine/Desktop/Solution-Certifcates/apns.php on line 31…….

please let me know what should i do for getting out of it ……

Thanks

Regards

I have some issues about Apple Push Notification :

1. if I am using sandbox environment to push notification on iphone then how can I push messages to my multiple iphone devices for testing purpose.

2. I can make a build with ad-hoc provisioning profile to test application.

3. How can I send user preferred messages to specific user.

4. How can I send geo-based push notification to user.

Please reply if you have any idea about above issues.

Thanks in advance

I have some questions about iLime, but can’t find any support email from your website.
Can you please give me an email address that I can contact iLime?

Thanks!

Kevin

Thank you for your reply!

My hosting company block all my connection to Apple.
So I am building my linux server, I use ubuntu.

Thanks again!

Kevin

Sorry for the late reply I was held up with loads of work. You should remember, all the keys and certificates are for the machine where you are finally deploying your code(where you want to run those php scripts).

I used Amazon EC2 servers which gave me terminal access and i was able to deploy the APNS services without any hassles. Once you get the aps_developer_identity.cer, execute the following commands on your server.
Generating .PEM file
To create the file ck.pem file required to access the APNS service, we need to generate the ck.pem file by running the following command on the SSH terminal:
openssl x509 -inform der -in aps_production_identity.cer -out ck.pem
Once the ck.pem file is generated, PHP is ready to use that certificate to talk to push notification over the secure SSL channel.

Hope this helps..!
-Anish

I can create the server.key file but can’t create the server.csr

When I try this command to create the .csr file
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
it shows:
Unable to load config info from /etc/pki/tls/openssl.cnf

Anyway, our server is hosted in other company and they provide cPanel X to set up our server. I find that there is a SSL/TLS Manager. And I use this manager to create the Private Key. When I want to create the private key, I typed our website into the host field and use key size:2048. After that I use this key from SSL/TLS Manager to generate a server.csr file and I need to type in the country, state…. etc….

Are these steps correct?

I upload this server.csr file to iPhone developer portal to create the APNS SSL certificate- aps_developer_identity.cer
and then double click this aps_developer_identity.cer to install into my local iMac. I open the keychain access and find that this certificate without any private key.

What should I do next?

Please help! Many thanks!

Kevin

openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 2048

Next use the server.key file and run the below command to create the .csr file that is uploaded to the iPhone developer portal.

openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr

Running these command prompts to enter various details like country, state city etc. Provide appropriate values to each of the options to create the CSR file. Upload the CSR file to the iPhone developer portal to create the APNS SSL certificate – aps_developer_identity.cer

Hope this helps..!
-Anish