As per this question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7575709/newly-added-files-getting-permissions-error Apache 2.2 is not supposed to be able to access its DocumentRoot if the folder has been encrypted with EFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypting_File_System
However I was wondering if there is a way, maybe by modifying the permissions for that folder, that Apache can have access to it. The OS is Windows 8.1 Professional.
The reason is that this is a non-production machine (it is used for development) which is relatively vulnerable to theft and the source code is valuable so I want it to be protected in case of physical access to the disk by unauthorised people.