Setting up fckeditor was a cake walk. There are so many types available for  the wysiwyg editor some of them are

• BUEditor
• FCKeditor
• HTMLArea
• niceEdit
• TinyMCE
• Whizzywig

and one may get stuck which one to opt for - work your way out. Doesn't matter how. If atall you can make a log of how you got over your hurdle. It may help others as well as you and will save precious time if you encounter the same again.

I started out with one and wasn't much to frown upon. But the image insertion almost took twice as much time to get working

The remedy that I took was in the following links

http://drupal.org/node/235032

http://drupal.org/node/226177

http://drupal.fckeditor.net/troubleshooting

http://drupal.org/node/239552

To be precise

After installing the FCKeditor at the time of inserting image the file browser window along with an error like

"Error creating folder - redirect: /index.php"(cannot create redirect:directory)

use to popup.

check in the administer>>site configuration>>file browser setting

file browser is the default file browser

path to uploaded files:  %b%f/

absolute path to uploaded files: %d%b%f/

Inside the /drupal-6.13/sites/all/modules/fckeditor/fckeditor/editor/filemanager/connectors/php/config.php file edit the following

global $Config ;
 
// SECURITY: You must explicitly enable this "connector". (Set it to "true").
// WARNING: don't just set "$Config['Enabled'] = true ;", you must be sure that only
//        authenticated users can access this file or use some kind of session checking.
$Config['Enabled'] = true ;
 
// Path to user files relative to the document root.
$Config['UserFilesPath'] = '/drupal-6.13/sites/default/files/' ;
 
// Fill the following value it you prefer to specify the absolute path for the
// user files directory. Useful if you are using a virtual directory, symbolic
// link or alias. Examples: 'C:\\MySite\\userfiles\\' or '/root/mysite/userfiles/'.
// Attention: The above 'UserFilesPath' must point to the same directory.
$Config['UserFilesAbsolutePath'] = '/var/www/drupal-6.13/sites/default/files/' ;

The screen shot of a page having image embeded inside using fckeditor