Hi Zak, if the problem was occurring in just one website and one hosting company then it would be as you said a matter of looking at the .htaccess file but this is for various sites over various hosting companies (ipage,godaddy,1and1.com). Also I was only performing slight updates to the sites, so it was all working before using muse 2014.1 (and previous to that as well) and I have never had to modify the .htaccess file before, it has only occurred since the october 2014 update. I know it's a user forum but I want to know if this is happening to others (it seems it is).
thanks
Mike