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Asked: 2026-06-05T03:27:21+00:00

I’m creating my own appstore for android and ipad applications. I’m using node.js to

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I’m creating my own appstore for android and ipad applications. I’m using node.js to run my webservices and mongodb for data storage. Webservices are running in port 8030. Eg: webservice at localhost:8030/webservice1. To put everything in place in my server machine, I’m using xampp server. In httpd.conf file I configured it as

ProxyPass /getapplication http://localhost:8030/webservice1
ProxyPassReverse /getapplication http://localhost:8030/webservice1

This webservice will start downloading a application file in device. This works fine for apk files. But in ipad while I try to download a ipa file, Safari is showing error as “Safari cannot download this file”

Usually I give the download path directly as http://myserver.com/myfolder/myapkfile.apk
and for ipad http://myserver.com/myfolder/myipafile.ipa. After going through some links, I changed the link for ipad to

itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=http://myserver.com/myfolder/myipafile.ipa
Its showing error as “Cannot connect to myserver.com”. What might be the problem?? Can anyone help me sort out what am I missing??

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  1. Editorial Team

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    This is because for ad-hoc OTA iOS distributions, it typically requires a .plist (manifest) file which contains the link to the .ipa and other vital app data. Take a look at how BetaBuilder (Mac app, also source available on Github) and TestFlight do it.

    https://github.com/HunterHillegas/iOS-BetaBuilder

    https://testflightapp.com/

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