Docs feedback: Inconsistencies in 'Installation from source'

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Problem to solve

Some installation steps are wrong making Gitlab to crash or to fail installation.

Further details

Problems found:

1. Rack attack configuration seems not to be needed as config/initializers/rack_attack.rb.example is not present anymore (version 13.1 affected).
2. ElasticSearch task is not present in gitlab-foss while the document uses that repository and asks to install GitLab-Elasticsearch-indexer (all recent versions affected).

Proposal

1. Remove installation step.
2. Either include task into gitlab-foss (if possible) or remove installation step (if not needed).

Note: Using gitlab repository (to work around ElasticSearch problem on gitlab-foss) and omitting rack attack configuration step makes me to succeed Gitlab installation without any other problems.

Who can address the issue

Other links/references

• Report on 12.10 documentation for 'Installation from source': #217025 (closed) (¿duplicated?)