I'm on a security kick right now and my current project is a server with a Wordpress site (that used to be a Joomla site). I sometimes get 50 requests a day to 

> /wp-login.php (the Wordpress default login page)

or 

> /administrator (the Joomla default login page)

I obfuscate my login pages so they 404. But I don't like to have people try to hack my website. 

I'm thinking about 301 redirecting those requests to the home page hopefully to confuse the brute-force bots. Would there be any drawbacks to such an approach?


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I'm also thinking about sending other hack requests there, like author pages, search pages and non-existent plugins.