Setting up the default AspNetSqlProvider to point to remote database

<connectionStrings>
      <add name="aspnet_membership" connectionString="<your_connection_string>"/>
    </connectionStrings>

<membership>
    <providers>
        <remove name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"/>
        <add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"
            type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
            connectionStringName="aspnet_membership"
            enablePasswordRetrieval="false"
            enablePasswordReset="true"
            requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true"
            applicationName="/"
            requiresUniqueEmail="false"
            passwordFormat="Hashed"
            maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5"
            minRequiredPasswordLength="7"
            minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="1"
            passwordAttemptWindow="10"
            passwordStrengthRegularExpression=""/>
    </providers>
  </membership>

<remove name="LocalSqlServer"/>

<add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=VMKsqlexpress;Initial Catalog=commodity_exchange;Integrated Security=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>