Permalink issues

https://itsnovel.com

I have been searching google all day to try to get them working but I can’t seem to get anything concrete that should work. I went in my settings and changed my setup to ‘pretty’ permalinks. When I click on one of my posts it brings up the right link but it gives me a 403 error.

WordPress did make me a .htaccess file when I switched the permalink feature on. When I go on my FTP and open .htaccess it says this inside:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

When I switch my settings back to the regular ‘ugly’ links everything works fine again. How do I approach this problem?