.htaccess of getsimple gets me a 500 Internal Server Error on Ubuntu Localhost - apache

Question

localhost setup
ubuntu 12.04
mod rewrite enabled
multiple sites running in different directory’s
dir structure
/var/www/mysite1/htdocs/
/var/www/filehostwatch.com/htdocs/
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.
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wordpress .htaccess that works in my getsimple dir(copyed for test reasons) without problems
the one from getsimple gives me a 500 The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration ... i later figured out that this section is what caussing the error
.htacess
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
now the section that causes errors
Options -Indexes
# blocks direct access to the XML files - they hold all the data!
<Files ~ "\.xml$">
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
Satisfy All
</Files>
<Files sitemap.xml>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy All
</Files>
end of the section that causese 500 errors
RewriteEngine on
# Usually it RewriteBase is just '/', but
# replace it with your subdirectory path
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule /?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]
the config file in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ of the site looks like the one with another site where wordpress is running without problems. and as i said the htaccess from wordpress works even in this site when copied over.
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
ServerName filehostwatch.localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/filehostwatch.com/htdocs
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/filehostwatch.com/htdocs/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride FileInfo
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Any idea what might cause this problem?

Answer 1

You should probably change Satisfy All to Satisfy Any in the offending section to see if it helps.
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
Options All -Indexes
# blocks direct access to the XML files - they hold all the data!
<Files ~ "\.xml$">
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Files>
<Files sitemap.xml>
Satisfy Any
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Files>
RewriteEngine On
# Usually it RewriteBase is just '/', but
# replace it with your subdirectory path
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule /?([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]

Answer 2

If I'm understanding your problem correctly... .htaccess is in your /var/www/filehostwatch.com/htdocs/ directory? In which case I don't think you're giving enough permissions for your .htaccess file to configure what you want... In your virtual host settings you have:
<Directory /var/www/filehostwatch.com/htdocs/>
...
AllowOverride FileInfo
...
</Directory>
Which gives the ability to change mod_rewrite settings, but doesn't permit changing of host accesses (e.g. Allow & Deny) nor the changing of Options.
Have you tried setting this to AllowOverride All in your virtual host config? Alternatively you could add more directive settings to the AllowOverride option. Offhand I think AllowOverride FileInfo Limit Options should do the trick.
See also Apache's doc on AllowOverride