Terminal command to change permissions to my 'Sites' folder and apply change to enclosed items?

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Published on 2011-01-05T16:12:13Z Indexed on 2011/01/05 16:56 UTC
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Using Snow Leopard, I'm having issues with permissions in my Sites folder. While I can navigate to localhost/~username and read any files or folders there, the same permissions have not been applied to enclosed items, and I get a 403 error trying to access them in the browser.

If I select one of these enclosed folders and get info using Finder, I see the user 'Everyone' is set to 'No Access' but I can't change that (this behavior seems buggy, actually).

And if I select my 'Sites' folder, the tool to 'Apply to enclosed items' is grayed out...

Is there a Terminal command I can use to grant 'Read Only' access to my Sites folder, and all it contains, for the user 'Everyone'?

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