title: iOS Ad-hoc Distribution over Webserver
body: <p>Till now, I distribute my Apps on the device by connecting them to my Mac.</p>
  
  <p>Now I want to do this over the air.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>I export the appname.ipa from xcode</li>
  <li>Create an index.html (manually)</li>
  <li>Create a appname.plist file (manually)</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Index.html</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;a href="itms-services://?action=download-manifest&amp;amp;
          url=http://www.xyz.at/folder/appname.plist"&gt;
          click this link to install
      &lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>appname.plist</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;plist version="1.0"&gt;
  &lt;dict&gt;
          &lt;key&gt;items&lt;/key&gt;
          &lt;array&gt;
                  &lt;dict&gt;
                          &lt;key&gt;assets&lt;/key&gt;
                          &lt;array&gt;
                                  &lt;dict&gt;
                                          &lt;key&gt;kind&lt;/key&gt;
                                          &lt;string&gt;software-package&lt;/string&gt;
                                          &lt;key&gt;url&lt;/key&gt;
                                          &lt;string&gt;http://www.xyz.at/folder/appname.ipa&lt;/string&gt;
                                  &lt;/dict&gt;
                          &lt;/array&gt;
                          &lt;key&gt;metadata&lt;/key&gt;
                          &lt;dict&gt;
                                  &lt;key&gt;bundle-identifier&lt;/key&gt;
                                  &lt;string&gt;XXXXXXXXXXXXX&lt;/string&gt;
                                  &lt;key&gt;bundle-version&lt;/key&gt;
                                  &lt;string&gt;1.0.0.0.281&lt;/string&gt;
                                  &lt;key&gt;kind&lt;/key&gt;
                                  &lt;string&gt;software&lt;/string&gt;
                                  &lt;key&gt;title&lt;/key&gt;
                                  &lt;string&gt;appname&lt;/string&gt;
                          &lt;/dict&gt;
                  &lt;/dict&gt;
          &lt;/array&gt;
  &lt;/dict&gt;
  &lt;/plist&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I host this folder on a webserver.</p>
  
  <p>If I want to open the link in the index.html on my safari on iPad. --> Nothing happens.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a problem on the webserver or ... ?</p>