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This was a new one for me. Every time I tried to upload a photo to a WordPress site, I received a very informative “HTTP Error” message while the upload progress bar read “Crunching…”. Thanks in part to the stunningly generic error message, it took a while to figure out exactly what was going on.  The problem, it turns out, was HTTP authentication; I had enabled Apache’s basic HTTP login for the site, but being a plugin, Adobe Flash was not similarly authenticated.  So, trying to use the Flash-based image uploader kept silently failing because it couldn’t authenticate with the server.  The fix is simple: just tell Apache not to use authentication for the script that handles Flash-based uploads.  You can do this by modifying the .htaccess file in the root of your WordPress directory like so:

<FilesMatch "(async-upload\.php)$">
    Satisfy Any
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    Deny from none
</FilesMatch>

Hurray, I finally finished updating this site to use a modified version of the Elegant Grunge WordPress theme.  I hacked in support for threaded comments, so now you should be able to directly respond to one another.  There are still a few visual issues, especially with image borders, but everything seems to be functional.  Please let me know if you notice any problems with the site.

I just upgraded this site to WordPress 2.7 and everything seems to be working smoothly so far.  I found a small bug in the comments system, where I kept getting an enqueue_comment_hotkeys_js(); is undefined error every time I tried to edit comments in the administration panel, but commenting out that line in edit-comments.php seems to have fixed everything up.  Please let me know if anything on the site isn’t working properly after the upgrade