I keep getting the above error and have no idea how it happened. One moment I was doing fine and the next (after reboot) I get the error and its everytime i try to preview my page.

My guess would be that a configuration file in your webserver have been altered somehow so that it gives errors..

I no longer get the error, but my script displays on the browswer instead of executing.

On your server, are short tags supported? That is if you are using them - if not then your PHP installation is haywire. try calling PHP from a .htaccess file.

:-| how do I go about doing so?

If you use some sort of WAMP then i would've reinstalled it already :)

I use xampp 1.6.6a. I've reinstalled it and still getting the same issue. I wasn't getting this before. It just happened.

See my post in the other thread... which may or may not be of any help to you. What's your OS?
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I'm checking your post now. My OS is Vista

500 is an internal server error... It is a problem with the apache configuration, most likely. Improper syntax on mod_rewrite can do it.

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