Hey guys, I'm having trouble having my hoster open up the ports needed to use with Push Notification. Instead they suggested adding the host domain to the firewall, I gave them these: gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com gateway.push.apple.com Are these correct? Should this work this way? Thanks. Miguel

Who do you host with buddy?

I host on a shared server with Lunarpages. Thanks Miguel

You should try HostGator. All plans seem to work. They are very nice about opening ports. Jake

Hi MadRod, I'm still a big fan of x10hosting.com I have helped set up a few free x10 self-hosted users and Push is working great. ian

Hi Thanks guys. @Ian, I also liked x10hosting that you helped me setup, alhough via x10 I'm only been able to push to developing devices, not live. My problem is that i use lunarpages, for some clients emails, website, my website. So its just not about the BT self hosting. Changing hoster must to be my last option. I must try every option with lunarpages, before changing. Although i could use the free X10 just for the BT server, I dont mind not using my own domain. Have you been successful pushing to live devices via the free x10 hosting? Thanks. Miguel

Does the server have to be in a HTTPS? Thank you.

Hi MadRod, Hi have been sendi Live Push to both free and paid accounts on x10.

Hey Ian, I can only send notifications to design devices via x10. What could I be doing wrong? Thanks.

did your host add the apple sites to the firewall ?

From what I understood from Ian, its already done by default, using the x10 hosting. Thanks.

Hi Madrod, Whenever I have a problem with Push it always comes back to those certificates. Even if you think you have all the steps right in the Push certificate process you may just want to do it over again. I don't know how many times I've seen it happen where doing the same steps again seems to work. let me know ian

Thanks Ian, the only difference between the design certificate and the live one, is that on apple developer, inthe provisioning setion you add a new profile to the distribution, using the App Store as the distribution method, right? Thanks

Hi Miguel, the way I look at it is like this (I'm writing it down as I have problems getting this right too). For apps with push, you need to have a specific Apple app ID. For this app ID you create a development certificate (from a CSR) and then a Distribution certificate (can be from the same CSR). Then, you then create a Development profile and a Distribution profile, which are associated with the Development certificate and the Distribution certificate respectively and used to code sign the app. The Dev profile is to code sign the app in your xcode development environment, I'm pretty sure you have successfully done this already. The important bit is the Distribution profile, which can be set to AdHoc or full distribution. AdHoc is to test you app 'as live'; ie if it works with AdHoc, you *know* it will work when you switch it to full Distribution and put it in the app store. Allegedly... Apologies if you know all this already; I'm trying to confirm my understanding too!