Windows 10 and PHP a file_get_contents() responds with permission denied - php

Question

Error:
Warning: file_get_contents(C:\Users\ET\projects\results.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in C:\Users\ET\projects\results.php on line 16
line 16: $fileContents = file_get_contents("Files/$file","r");
XAMPP with PHP 7.3
IntelliJ PHPStorm 2019.2.3
Windows 10 Home
This fails in both the IntelliJ IDE's terminal, in CMD and in CMD opened as admin.
How is this fixed in windows where there is no chmod?

Answer 1

Copy your project files to (it is xampp documents folder: c:/xampp/htdocs for (php,html,css,js)):
c:/xampp/htdocs/proj1
c:/xampp/htdocs/proj2
Then set virtualhost: C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/xampp/htdocs/proj1"
ServerName proj1.xx
ServerAlias www.proj1.xx
<Directory "c:/xampp/htdocs/proj1">
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/xampp/htdocs/proj2"
ServerName proj2.xx
ServerAlias www.proj2.xx
<Directory "c:/xampp/htdocs/proj2">
DirectoryIndex index.php
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Create in windows hosts file: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
127.0.0.1 localhost proj1.xx proj2.xx
Restart xampp apache2, browser and then run in browser:
http://proj1.xx
Or
http://proj2.xx
You can change c:/xampp/htdocs/proj1 to your project path C:\Users\ET\projects ofcourse in xampp virtualhosts file.
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