'No valid code signing identity found' error

Question

I know this is flogging a very dead horse, trust me I've gone through every question on here and tried everything that's been advised. No beans. I'm missing something my brain is not capable of seeing.

So, my app is ready for release version 1 (thanks for all the help btw) and I'm going through the pain of uploading it for Apple to reject ;) I started the app on another machine, so I exported my private key and imported it to my new system. I then created a distribution profile and installed that, only to get the message of hate from Xcode. After 8 hours of shouting I decided to revoke my certificate, delete all my profiles and go to bed. This morning I created a new developer certificate on my new system, created a new provision profile, and installed everything. I can run my app on my device, all good (in fact, better than good, some warnings vanished).

But, here it comes, I still get the 'no valid code signing' error when I create a distribution profile.

I've watched several Youtube vids, I do nothing wrong according to them. I read Apple's documentation (which let's be honest is a mess) and I did everything it told me, but it's so vague I probably missed something. And I read through everything I found here, to no avail.

Is there, somewhere, anywhere (please) a step by step walk through which is up to date? Every one I found was Xcode 3 or the screen caps from the dev centre don't match.

I'm going to be heading to the pub if anyone in London wants to join me and shout at Apple for making this such a mess.

Screen caps if it helps?

Answer 1

I find that this Ray tutorial is very well made.