Permalink .htaccess not working

Hi,

I have read through the posts on the forum and cannot seem to get this to work. I would like my links to be website.com/page instead of website.ocom/index.php/page. Does anyone know how I can successfully do this? I added the code

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

but its still not working! please help!