So this morning, I was having a bit of trouble logging into the admin section of silverstripe. Every time I tried to, I'd get a bunch of javascript and other browser errors about not being able to find files, classes that were missing/undefined, and subsequently, things would stop at the "loading" screen. I checked and re-checked permissions, re-uploaded everything again and again, tried different browsers but nothing seemed to work.
Finally, I discovered that removing the .htaccess file under "assets", fixed the issue completely.
However, I'm guessing that file was placed there for a good reason and I was just curious as to whether or not its a good idea. If its not, then is there a fix?