wp-cli issues

I installed the wp-cli to handle regenerating images but it balked with errors

PHP Warning:  file_get_contents(/var/www/hardcoregames.ca/wp-config.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in phar:///usr/local/bin/wp/vendor/wp-cli/wp-cli/php/WP_CLI/Runner.php on line 603
Error: Strange wp-config.php file: wp-settings.php is not loaded directly.
igreen@x230:/var/www/hardcoregames.ca$ wp media regenerate
PHP Warning:  file_get_contents(/var/www/hardcoregames.ca/wp-config.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in phar:///usr/local/bin/wp/vendor/wp-cli/wp-cli/php/WP_CLI/Runner.php on line 603
Error: Strange wp-config.php file: wp-settings.php is not loaded directly.

running with sudo does not work well either had to use –allow-root

maybe it should use web-data:web-date which is what the default owner is

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