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Update docs with details on where to install Elasticsearch (#9670) [deploy]

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* Gitignore elasticsearch installations

* Add a note to explain that ES should be installed at the root level

Remove `/elasticsearch/*` from .gitignore as well!

* Update reference to home directory in mac + windows installation guides
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@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ archive. We recommend installing from archive on Mac.
### Installing Elasticsearch from the archive
We recommend that you **do not** install Elasticsearch in the app directory.
Instead, we recommend installing it in your home directory (for example,
`cd $HOME`). (This also ensures that we don't accidentally commit Elasticsearch
code to the project's repository!)
The following directions were
[taken from the Elasticsearch docs themselves](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/targz.html#install-macos),
so check those out if you run into any issues or want further information. Make

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@ -171,6 +171,11 @@ WSL.
Forem requires a version of Elasticsearch between 7.1 and 7.5. Version 7.6 is
not supported. We recommend version 7.5.2.
We recommend that you **do not** install Elasticsearch in the app directory.
Instead, we recommend installing it in your home directory (for example,
`cd $HOME`). (This also ensures that we don't accidentally commit Elasticsearch
code to the project's repository!)
The following directions were taken from
[the Elasticsearch docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/targz.html#install-linux),
check them out to learn more about the installation process and troubleshooting