see a ton of wp 404 redirects in redirects

[Jim007]

I have noticed lately that I have a ton of 404 redirects in the redirects component of joomla for wordpress urls. I know they are fishing for an entry into the site and info, I assume they are normal, but they are getting out of hand.

should I redirect them to somewhere else? There is no referring link on many of them for instance here is an example

wp-includes/css/css.php
and
wp-includes/fonts/css.php

I would like to redirect them to a site that basically says FU

I have got so fed up with the crap that I purchased the RSfirewall and blocked pretty much every geo ip address from every country on the europe, african and asian continent. I am USA based, I could care less if someone in France or Russia see my site.

[pe7er]

I have noticed lately that I have a ton of 404 redirects in the redirects component of joomla for wordpress urls. I know they are fishing for an entry into the site and info, I assume they are normal, but they are getting out of hand.

Yes, that's "normal". Bots visit every website / IP address they run into, and try to fingerprint the websites they find.

should I redirect them to somewhere else?

I sometimes redirect all wp-admin + wp-includes links to http://127.0.0.1

I purchased the RSfirewall and blocked pretty much every geo ip address from every country on the europe, african and asian continent. I am USA based, I could care less if someone in France or Russia see my site.

Actually, IMHO GEO blocking IP addresses is not effective:
Non-US visitors (or bots) might use a VPN with a US IP address.

And sometimes even unwanted:
If you block all traffic outside the US, you might miss US citizens on holiday abroad. Or US citizens using IP addresses from their mother company based in Europe.

[sozzled]

See also viewtopic.php?f=714&t=958501 and viewtopic.php?f=714&t=983584&p=3620876#p3620690. Useful search terms are "referrer spam" or "spamdexing".

[Jim007]

Thanks everyone

[Jim007]

I just rethought my response, I know we are a community of open source, creative well intention die hards only trying to better themselves, their cause or business. But after the Solar Winds Hack, it truly opened my eyes to the world of dipshits we live in. Sure, my site since it is hosted would not stand up to a sophisticated attack as the SW hack, but I want to control it a little bit and cut back on the BS.

I GEO blocked Asia, Antarctica, Africa, Europe, Oceania and many if not all of the South American countries. I thought about it, we are an American company and only service a small city. I don't care what a neighboring state can view as it really doesn't affect my business, sure it is cool to see a nice website reflecting your company, but I don't need to say "look at me" So I geo-blocked them.

What is ridiculous is the amount of Russian and China intrusion attempts into the back-end admin area, and the different files they try to access when looking at the redirects component. It's pathetic. So, unfortunately, right now I am just a North American site. I have dropped from a high of 1200 attempts a day to less than 100 within 2 weeks.