[wellylug] Chmod settings for web directory?

[Stephen Judd]

OK, so here's a question.

Directories, as Ewen noted, need execute permission. It would be bad to give 
execute permission to anything else in a web server docroot.

In a docroot with a bunch of directories, is there a way to recursively set 
them up such that their contents are read-only but directories have execute as 
well? (I mean in one or two commands, as opposed to writing a script). It is 
damned inconvenient by hand...

I ask this because I have often seen docroots where *everything* is 755 (or 
worse) because someone's got fed up and just went chmod -r.

(of course i would never ever do that, not even on an internal dev machine, o 
no not me). (more seriously, you should never do that on devel machines because 
depending on your migration strategy your borken permissions might make it on 
to a production box).

stephen