Finally after more than 5 hours of trial and error i have the image uploader working fine for me. Trying this out crashed Firefox many times and i finally had to send a crash report to Mozilla.

Followed all the differsnt instruction as mentioned in this post. Changed the .htaccess file to various different formats. Nothing worked. Neither

Option -1 :

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase Content-Type \
“^multipart/form-data;” “MODSEC_NOPOSTBUFFERING=Do not buffer file uploads”
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on No
</IfModule>

Option – 2 :

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>

Option – 3 :

SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI ^/wp-admin/async-upload.php$ MODSEC_ENABLE=Off

Option – 4 :

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>

worked. It worked for some one. But never for me.

Finally there was one post that asked to give the full path for the upload folder. That only created a this directory path in the root folder – http:/jerrymannel.com/blog/wp-content/upload/

Yes things got messier ..

Then reading down the same forum i found this link – 2.5 Image/Media Uploader problems. Now that was a saver. Went setp by step. Bang!!! Step 4 was what had to be done and BINGO!!! Everything worked….

I recommend starting at this and then trying out editing the .htaccess file. Happy Blogging.