/srv

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/srv is part of the Gentoo Baselayout. It is also part of the FHS.

 /srv contains site-specific data which is served by this system.
 
 This main purpose of specifying this is so that users may find
 the location of the data files for particular service, and so that
 services which require a single tree for readonly data, writable data
 and scripts (such as cgi scripts) can be reasonably placed. Data that
 is only of interest to a specific user should go in that users'
 home directory.
 
 The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as there
 is currently no consensus on how this should be done. One method for
 structuring data under /srv is by protocol, eg. ftp, rsync, www, and cvs.
 On large systems it can be useful to structure /srv by administrative
 context, such as /srv/physics/www, /srv/compsci/cvs, etc. This setup will
 differ from host to host. Therefore, no program should rely on a specific
 subdirectory structure of /srv existing or data necessarily being stored in
 /srv. However /srv should always exist on FHS compliant systems and should
 be used as the default location for such data.
 
 Distributions must take care not to remove locally placed files in these
 directories without administrator permission.
 
 This is particularly important as these areas will often contain both
 files initially installed by the distributor, and those added by the
 administrator.