Product images not showing after server migration prestashop

Question

I have migrated my prestashop 1.5.6 e-commerce site to a new server,

Process i did was just upload the files to new server and import the db.

I cleaned the Cache/smarty/compile and Cache/smarty/cache folders and left the index.php file.

I tried regenerating thumbnails from Preferences/images page but didn't work and gave "Internal server error".

I changed the process configuration to FcgidBusyTimeout 3600 in /etc/httpd/conf.d/fcgid.conf

I tried again to regenerate and this time, it is gave that : Original images not found in /img/p/1/2/xxx, But in reality all my images are in /img/p/xxxx.png

I tried using the Move Images to New image structure function in Preferences/images page and it created the structure but 1400+ images are not found now !!

Anyhelp will be more then welcome !

Updated : 27 June 2014 I lost hope after 48 hrs of finding and trying different solutions, reverted version back to backup copy of store, and not managing the store anymore. lost client..

Answer 1

Did you regenerated your .htaccess? To do so, go to preferences>SEO and URLs and click save. This will automatically refresh a line in that file depending on your new server configuration.

If not, try to regenerate the thumbnails (Preferences>images>regenerate thumbs). Since you have a lot of images, Try to regenerate type by type because the process take a lot of time and it is better to know where it stops if it is interrupted.

Of course, all manips are better done in development environment.

good luck.