Open a direct file on the hard drive from firefox (file:///)

Question

I have a small php system i created for myself. This system contains a few .doc and .docx file documents. I want to be able to open them directly from the browser and not do

Answer 1

Which syntax did you use? The correct syntax for e.g. c:/path/to/file.ext would have been file:///c:/path/to/file.ext. Edit: not relevant anymore as OP has edited his question to include the syntax.

Note that this doesn't work at all if the file is stored at the server machine which in turn is a physically different machine than the client machine (where the webbrowser runs).