options-permalink problems

I had the same problem, it took me one week of searching through these forums, if you are getting the 403 error or 404 error take a look at this page it helped me straight away.

http://www.htaccesselite.com/htaccess/wordpress-permalink-403-error-vt171.html

My problem was 403 error so I did what it recommended which was to insert this in my .htaccess file Options +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch above <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> and above this # BEGIN WordPress so it doesn’t get over written and my pretty permalinks /%category%/%postname%/%post_id% which resolve to http://test.dappastyles.com/about/ for my pages worked.

Hope this helps.