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<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.yoursite.com
    ServerAdmin hosting@yourdomain.com

    DocumentRoot /var/local/sites/www.yoursite.com/emergency
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{ENV:REDIRECT_STATUS} !=503
    RewriteRule ^ - [L,R=503]
    # Make sure index.html doesn't exist

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# proxy traffic from original to new machine to allow for smooth DNS transfers
# Set new-www.therealserver.com up in /etc/hosts on the original machine
<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName www.therealservername.com
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://new-www.therealservername.com$1 [P,L]
  ProxyPass / http://new-www.therealservername.com/
  ProxyPreserveHost On
  <Proxy *>
    Allow from all

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# old database must be idle (no held open connections or write transactions)
sudo -u postgres createdb newdatabase -T olddatabase

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"""
jQuery templates use constructs like:

    {{if condition}} print something{{/if}}

This, of course, completely screws up Django templates,
because Django thinks {{ and }} means something.

Wrap {% verbatim %} and {% endverbatim %} around those
blocks of jQuery templates and this will try its best