PHP query does not show any results on apache webserver - php

Question

Alright so. I have a relative simple task. Here is the fully functional working code of a query that does work. It works
<?php
$query = array(
'address'=>'https://mcapi.ca/query/94.12.141.113:25577/info'); //Grab statistics from URL.
$response = json_decode(file_get_contents($query['address']), true); //Decode the JSON response.
?>
It works. I've seen it work with my own two eyes.
The problem is now that I'm hosting the file. (obviously it has html code for the web page where the result of this query is called and displayed on the page(which also works)). When I host the file on my apache webserver which has been port forwarded and what have you - it's online. I go to the page.... scroll to the bottom and find that there are no results for this query. So my thinking is that apache is blocking links to other sites from within the files for some security reasons... sod that I want to see my results. So anyone know of such a setting? Maybe even a file that I can go and visit to change said setting?
Now what I want to know:
Is it the code?
if so how can I fix it?
Is it a setting in the webserver?
if so... you guessed it... how can I fix it?
and if it is none of the above... what is it?
Any and all help is much appreciated.
This is the error log as requested
[Sun Jan 01 14:18:42.055662 2017] [:error] [pid 5052:tid 1068] [client ::1:49636] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(): Unable to find the wrapper "https" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\index.php on line 4
[Sun Jan 01 14:18:42.055662 2017] [:error] [pid 5052:tid 1068] [client ::1:49636] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(https://mcapi.ca/query/94.12.141.113:25577/info): failed to open stream: Invalid argument in C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\index.php on line 4
[Sun Jan 01 14:18:46.248600 2017] [:error] [pid 5052:tid 1068] [client ::1:49636] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(): Unable to find the wrapper "https" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\gallery.php on line 4, referer: http://localhost/
[Sun Jan 01 14:18:46.248600 2017] [:error] [pid 5052:tid 1068] [client ::1:49636] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(https://mcapi.ca/query/94.12.141.113:25577/info): failed to open stream: Invalid argument in C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\gallery.php on line 4, referer: http://localhost/
[Sun Jan 01 14:18:47.697728 2017] [:error] [pid 5052:tid 1068] [client ::1:49636] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(): Unable to find the wrapper "https" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\about.php on line 4, referer: http://localhost/gallery.php
[Sun Jan 01 14:18:47.697728 2017] [:error] [pid 5052:tid 1068] [client ::1:49636] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(https://mcapi.ca/query/94.12.141.113:25577/info): failed to open stream: Invalid argument in C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\about.php on line 4, referer: http://localhost/gallery.php
[Sun Jan 01 14:18:48.495928 2017] [:error] [pid 5052:tid 1068] [client ::1:49636] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(): Unable to find the wrapper "https" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\index.php on line 4, referer: http://localhost/about.php
[Sun Jan 01 14:18:48.495928 2017] [:error] [pid 5052:tid 1068] [client ::1:49636] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(https://mcapi.ca/query/94.12.141.113:25577/info): failed to open stream: Invalid argument in C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\index.php on line 4, referer: http://localhost/about.php
[Sun Jan 01 14:34:21.958403 2017] [:error] [pid 5052:tid 1084] [client ::1:49819] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(): Unable to find the wrapper "https" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\index.php on line 4
[Sun Jan 01 14:34:21.958403 2017] [:error] [pid 5052:tid 1084] [client ::1:49819] PHP Warning: file_get_contents(https://mcapi.ca/query/94.12.141.113:25577/info): failed to open stream: Invalid argument in C:\\Apache24\\htdocs\\index.php on line 4