I had a hard time figuring out how to get the pretty url permalinks working for WordPress on WestHost, but I finally found the solution. It was weird at first because WordPress actually was writing to the .htaccess file correctly, but when I tried it out in a browser I was still getting 404’s. After a long extensive search on the WordPress website, I finally found that I had to add the following to my httpd.conf file:
<Directory /var/www/html/wordpress>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
</Directory>