I created my website in my development environment using WebMatrix.  It handled all the code download and setup.  

Everything runs fine in development.  I am trying to host it at Arvixe as you guys recommend and I am having issues.  I backed up my database and restored it on the Arvixe server.  I changed my connection string to point to the Arvixe SQL Server and ran the website in development and it ran fine.  I assumed that all was well with the database.

I then copied all the files in my wwwroot folder to the wwwroot folder on the Arvixe hosting site.  I set the permissions on the wwwroot folder to read only and let it cascade to all lower folders.  I then set the permissions on app_data and data to read and write and cascaded again.

When I try to go to the website I get the error

500 - Internal server error.
There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed.

I went into the webconfig file and set the customerror to off.  When I went back to the site, I got the same error.

I checked the currentlog.config file and nothing is showing up there.

It makes me think it is not even getting to the webconfig file.

What am I missing?  I just copied the files in the WebMatrix Project root folder.  Do I need to do some kind of build in Visual Studio?  

I am running Visual Studio 10, so I am assuming when WebMatrix created the mojoportal project it downloaded the .Net 4 version.

Need help quickly.  I have two days to get the site up and running and I have had an open ticket with Arvixe for 6 hours now and no response. 

Thanks for the quick response.

My original attempt was to install it on there site and configure there, but the installation kept failing and when I entered a support ticket, they said they preferred I develop locally and upload.

When I look at the site settings I see this:

ASP.NET 1.1: Disabled
ASP.NET 2.0: Enabled
ASP.NET 4.0: Enabled

How can I confirm that my site files are configured for .net 4?

That got me farther than before.  I wasn't able to view the properties before. I changed it from .NET 2 to .Net 4.  I went back and replaced the web.config created by Arvixe with my earlier file.  When I go to the website now, I get

This webpage is not available

The webpage at http://www.broadcastsports.org.petunia.arvixe.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
Error 103 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_ABORTED): Unknown error.

This was my attempt using their pointer.  Get the same error using www.broadcastsports.org.

I went into the web.config file and turned off the customerrors and I still got the same message.

In checking the currentlog.config file after I attempt to open the website, I get these three lines:

2013-02-28 12:29:23,964 INFO (null) - (null) - (null) - mojoPortal.Web.Global - Application Started. 
2013-02-28 12:29:24,339 INFO (null) - (null) - (null) - mojoPortal.Web.WebTaskManager - deserialized WebTaskManager task 
2013-02-28 12:29:24,339 INFO (null) - (null) - (null) - mojoPortal.Web.WebTaskManager - Queued WebTaskManager on a new thread 

Anymore thoughts would be appreciated.

Sorry, another couple of questions.

Do any SMTP settings need to go in the user.config file?  I have made the necessary changes to the web.config file and registration emails are not going out.  I do have an account setup on Arvixe.

Also, how can I confirm that a payment confirmation came back from PayPal?  Is this an issue with the Medium Trust on Arvixe?  Also, how can I associate that payment with a distinct user level?

If you can't tell, I am a 25 year desktop developer with limited web work.

Your config settings for SMTP at Arvixe will look something like this:

<add key="SMTPServer" value="localhost"/>
    <add key="SMTPRequiresAuthentication" value="false"/>
    <add key="SMTPUseSsl" value="false"/>
    <add key="SMTPPort" value="25"/>
    <add key="SMTPUser" value="youruser@broadcastsports.org"/>
    <add key="SMTPPassword" value="yourpassword"/>
    <add key="SMTPTimeoutInMilliseconds" value="30000"/>