i figured i share the solution i worked out with my hosting service. my site is hosted with 1and1 and after browsing their faq i realized that i needed two additional settings in my .htaccess file (bolded):
<FilesMatch
"\.(engine|inc|info|install|module|profile|po|sh|.*sql|theme|tpl(\.php)?
|xtmpl)$|^(code-style\.pl|Entries.*|Repository|Root|Tag|Template)$">
Order allow,deny
</FilesMatch>
Options -MultiViews
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
DirectoryIndex index.php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /gallery
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
Please note that the second entry will correspond to the path in which your .htaccess file resides.
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