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Fix setup order in Elasticsearch docs

Markus Koller requested to merge fix-elasticsearch-docs into master

What does this MR do?

This is in response to #34558 (comment 261712479).

The ES index needs to be created before indexing is enabled, otherwise it can happen that the index gets auto-created on the first indexing action but is missing our mappings (#13717 (closed)).

Our current instructions are misleading in this regard, because we're enabling Elasticsearch indexing before setting up the index (this was my fault in gitlab-foss!31972 (merged) 🙈).

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Edited by Dmitry Gruzd

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