this is odd...
i reinstalled silverstripe and it seemed to work for a while. (this time i moved modification to my .htaccess file to the begging of it, modifications i needed to do for 1and1)
now when i go to the site i get a 400 bad request error
"Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand."
whereas before i would just get my hostings 404 error.
i can usually get rid of this by clearing cookies and restarting the browser. so i figured it would be fine, but when i sent the link to my friend, he got the same 400 bad request error!
any insight?