[dspillett]

> It's always /var/www/$url.

Or in a shared hosting environment /home/<user>/public_html/ or /home/<user>/www/

[westurner]

One reason to place static files and cgi-bin executables in /var/www instead of /home/user homedir is: /var/www it's already labeled httpd_sys_content_t or httpd_sys_script_exec_t or instead of user_home_t (so that you don't need to `setsebool httpd_enable_homedirs on` for all users and `chcon httpd_user_content_t` if it's not necessary).