A successfully built/signed ipa won't install

[rzberg]

Hi,

I followed the instructions and currently running the web service on a Windows 10 machine with Github Actions as the builder with a developer account (provision + certificate).
The build completed successfully and the file is made available for install/download.

But when I click the Install button nothing happens. No prompt, no install, nothing new on the iPhone's homepage.
The browsers I tried were Safari and Chrome, both the same result.

This is what I see in the web service console every time I press the Install button:
{"time":"2021-04-07T08:51:21.8639162-04:00","id":"","remote_ip":"xx.xx.xx.xx","host":"my-private-url.trycloudflare.com","method":"GET","uri":"/apps/1df97ec4-9f61-4a58-acb9-bd4cb8293fab/manifest","user_agent":"com.apple.appstored/1.0 iOS/14.4.2 model/iPhone13,1 hwp/t8101 build/18D70 (6; dt:228) AMS/1","status":200,"error":"","latency":1394200,"latency_human":"1.3942ms","bytes_in":0,"bytes_out":1238}

Any idea why it wouldn't install?

Thank you!

BTW I didn't mean to add the "bug" label. This could very well be a setup/user issue :) and not a "bug".

[ViRb3]

Hey there. Everything is looking good on your end. I just tried the same setup with Windows 10 and cloudflared, with both Brave and Safari, and installing works just fine on my iPhone 12 with iOS 14.4.2. I am seeing the exact same logs as well. Since you have /apps/1df97ec4-9f61-4a58-acb9-bd4cb8293fab/manifest and there is no error (error":""), then the device obtained the manifest file. Do you have any corporate policies/profiles or MDM that may prevent you from sideloading apps ad-hoc?

[ViRb3]

To verify, try uploading the signed IPA to https://www.diawi.com/ and see if you can sideload from there. Can you also post the content of /apps/1df97ec4-9f61-4a58-acb9-bd4cb8293fab/manifest from your computer's browser?

[rzberg]

@ViRb3 I can confirm I do not have any corporate policies or MDM.
I have only one other profile (that was installed by AltServer) but that one shouldn't prevent anything right? I will try to remove it and repeat the process.

I will also try to upload and download from Diawi.

Thanks!

manifest.txt

[rzberg]

I have some good news. I think the issue was special characters in the pre-signed ipa file. When I renamed the ipa before I uploaded it to a simple short name it installed just fine!

Thank you so much for all your hard work this project is amazing. I can finally use my developer account to sign and install ipa files wirelessly.

Now I am going to try the iSH way to make it true portable.

Thank you!

[ViRb3]

Ah, I suspected that this may be a problem. The ampersand (&) symbol has a special meaning in XML, which is the manifest's format. I will make an update to account for this. Thanks for the report.

[ViRb3]

I released an updated version, it should no longer experience this problem.

[rzberg]

Thank you so much!!!