WordPress Permalink Changed, Can’t Access Pages

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On the front end of my WordPress 3.5.2 site, I have three buttons: Home, Blog and Sample Page. When my Permalink Settings are set to Default, I can access these three pages: 

Home: http://ec2-xx-xxx-x-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com/

Blog: http://ec2-xx-xxx-x-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com/?page_id=13

Sample Page:
http://ec2-xx-xxx-x-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com/?page_id=2

However, when I changed my Permalink Settings to Post name, and refreshed the browser, I cannot access the Blog page and Sample page. I get the following errors:

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Blog: http://ec2-xx-xxx-x-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com/blog 
Not Found
The requested URL /blog/ was not found on this server.

Sample Page:
http://ec2-xx-xxx-x-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com/sample-page/ 
Not Found
The requested URL /sample-page/ was not found on this server.

In WordPress’s Settings -> Permalink Settings, I also get this message:

If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.

When I checked my permissions for the .htaccess file, I got 644, so I changed it to 666 and the message disappeared (I changed it back to 644) 

[ec2-user@ip-xx-xxx-xxx-xx html]$ ls -l .htaccess
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 258 Jul 25 21:49 .htaccess 
[ec2-user@ip-xx-xxx-xxx-xx html]$ sudo chmod 666 .htaccess

I can still access my home page after changing the permalink settings to Post name. I’m not sure if this has anything to do with my problem but I installed my WordPress site in a subdirectory (xxx) on my Amazon EC2 micro instance and I changed WP’s General Settings as follows: 

WordPress Address (URL): http://ec2-xx-xxx-x-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com/xxx

Site Address (URL): http://ec2-xx-xxx-x-xxx.compute-1.amazonaws.com
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  2. Make a .htaccess file at the root of your WordPress installation. Then add the following –

    # BEGIN WordPress

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

# END WordPress

    If you want WordPress to do it automatically, then change the file permission to 777 using chmod.