Wordpress permalinks troubleshooting

Hi, I need a Wordpress/IT expert to tell me how to solve a problem with permalinks. On Wordpress I want to set permalinks to custom permalinks, however the change isn't applied for some reason. After saving changes I'd try to create a new post but the permalink stays something like "[login to view URL]". So the change to custom permalinks is never applied. My .htaccess file seems to be working fine and has the following rewrite rules: # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /[login to view URL] [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress According to all forums and sites I've visited to solve this problem, everything is correct now and it should work but I just can't get it to work. I just need someone to guide me so I can do whatever is needed. I'll pay only when I'm able to change to custom permalinks successfully.