Magento images not showing on front end

Question

I'm using Magento 1.4. I have two website set up. If I upload images to Website A, they appear fine on both front and back end. If I upload or import images to Website B, they do not appear on the front end, only the backend. I'm completely stuck. I'm happy to provide any additional details that may be helpful, but am so frustrated I'm not sure what is necessary info to fix the problem. Thanks!

Answer 1

I had the same problem., After someone suggested delting the .htaccess file in /media (which is of course a bad idea) ich chekced all the parameters and found that both

Options All -Indexes

and

Options +FollowSymLinks

got me an error 500. commenting them out fixed the problem. I also replaced

Options +FollowSymLinks

with

 Options  +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
 Options -MultiViews 

Answer 2

Just Rename your .htaccess file inside the /media directory to .htaccess-old. This will absolutely resolve your image issue. - See more at: http://www.viraljetani.com/programming/magento-images-not-appearing-on-frontend-as-well-as-backend-on-godaddy-server#sthash.Uxd9kXqI.dpuf

Answer 3

Make sure your /media folder is writeable.