Development server to production server

I have developed the nop commerce site on my local machine with sql express. I am now prepared to upload it to a hosting provider.

My question is after uploading the site and and running a sql script for the database, what else need i do. Set permissions ....?

yes. give read/write permissions to the following files/folders
1. \files
2. \Google
3. \images
4. \images\thumbs
5. \ConnectionStrings.config
6. \web.config

Thank you for your quick response.

One more question. The only place I need to place the connection string for the database is  in the file ConectionStrings.config, is that correct?

And the correct format is:

<connectionStrings>
    <add name="NopSqlConnection" connectionString="Data Source=ServerName\SQLServerName;Initial Catalog=DataBaseName;Integrated Security=False;Persist Security Info=False;User ID=LoginName;Password=LoginPassword;Connect Timeout=120" />
</connectionStrings>

Thanks,
Chuck

Yes, that is correct

Hello all. I have installed nopCommerce 1.20 on my local machine and it runs PERFECTLY! However, once I FTP'd it to the hosting server, I've got nothing. I get the 500 error saying internal server error. I have updated the connectionstrings.config file and even had Network Solutions load the database. <--- I called and told them I couldn't migrate the database to their server so the support rep told me to create a backup and load it onto the server and they would take care of it.  Is it a possibility that the database is not loaded yet and that is the reason for the error? I installed nopCommerce into the root directory and not as an application. Could this be the reason for the error?  Any help is greatly appreciated.