Failed to update database because it is read-only

Question

I have set up my website to use ASP.NET Membership. it all works fine when trying to use it on my development machine but when I put it on the web server and try to log in,

Answer 1

The user account that the website is running under needs write permissions on the file.

It is also likely that the file is read-only as result of the transfer and needs to be set to be writeable.