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On one site I added a little bit of code to just keep a track of page visits. For fun, I also added it to the 404 page.

Over the last month I have had over 1000 hits to the 404, which made me wonder who was getting my site addresses so wrong.

Obviously, this is a terribly course tool and does not tell me anything other than it is being hit.

So, being curious, I chucked an email at the hosting provider, asking them if they had a clue from their logs (i am terrible at reading logs)

Yes, they said. The vast majority of 404s are being caused by people trying to hit the following page:

mydomain.com/wp-admin

Now, what a surprise!

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There was a similar discussion here in the forums which I can't find now, someone even suggested a module for this purpose :)

Actually, perhaps Processwire should come with optional pages for wp-admin and a couple of other WordPress standards that are nicely written and polite.

"Should have chosen Processwire."

Granted, my solution here is not very polite, but the methodology is there. ;-)

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Greetings,

Hmm... Everyone run a check.  After reading this, I took a look at some logs on a few of my own projects, and what do you know -- several hits on /[domain]/wp-admin.

Joss may have stumbled onto a poke-wp opportunity.  Maybe we could start a movement among all non-wp CMSs to redirect such requests to a particular WordPress page.  That would be mean, of course -- potentially increasing their site visits overnight by millions of hits.

Thanks,

Matthew

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Just a cursory glance at the logs shows mostly wp-login, attempting to find it in various places: /wp/ or /wordpress/ or /news/blog/ and so on. Actually, it is probably a pretty authoritative list of the most common places people install wordpress.

I get the odd other wp- files and then also quite a few attempted hits on jquery.js (in places where I don't have it, of course).

The IP addresses tend to be mostly Dehli with some Ukraine and one repetitive address in Tulsa. 

IP address 67.20.55.130 was having a good hunt around for vbullitin last night and also looking for bigdump.php and a couple of backup.sql scripts.

So, this is also proving to be a list of file names you should not have in your web accessible hierarchy because they are searched out by intruders.

I have blocked a couple of the ip addresses on CPanel for interest and there was less activity in the last 24 hours, though I suspect that could prove a full time occupation if one were not careful. It almost needs an automated script that says:

"If an IP address attempts to find a file name from a blacklist more than N number of times, then block IP"

So, in our cases, we would put on the blacklist common files from Drumalpress and a couple of forums, plus some things like backup.php which we do not have.

It would need to be domain name specific, of course or you could end up blocking yourself!

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Joss may have stumbled onto a poke-wp opportunity.  Maybe we could start a movement among all non-wp CMSs to redirect such requests to a particular WordPress page.  That would be mean, of course -- potentially increasing their site visits overnight by millions of hits.

This would make you no better than any ddos botnet, but maybe we can create a crazy performant site, which does log all prevented wordpress login/hack attempts (redirect or via some kind of api). Then a few statistics about it and we've some good marketing material for processwire.

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Just for interest, I wonder how many PW users rename their admin? I always do, normally something relating to the site.  So, if I had joss.com (which I don't!) I would create jsadmin or something. I vary the system quite a lot, but useful to keep it vaguely memorable for client sites. 

The ability to rename admin I think is a particularly neat security feature in PW. It might not be uber-powerful, but is so simple and just creates a nice little hurdle for bots to trip over.

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Just for interest, I wonder how many PW users rename their admin? 

I do. But I always use the same consistent name - which works well a) for me when I come back to a site I built years ago, and b) for other team members at work so they know where to go.

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Just for interest, I wonder how many PW users rename their admin? I always do, normally something relating to the site.  So, if I had joss.com (which I don't!) I would create jsadmin or something. I vary the system quite a lot, but useful to keep it vaguely memorable for client sites. 

The ability to rename admin I think is a particularly neat security feature in PW. It might not be uber-powerful, but is so simple and just creates a nice little hurdle for bots to trip over.

Yeah, I always rename the admin area. Lately, I've started making it 'siteadministration-', followed by their randomised five-digit account reference tag. So, for example: abcaccounting.co.za/siteadministration-f851z. For ease-of-reference, I ask them to bookmark the URL so they need not remember it.

Also building a Client Centre for my clients so that they have access to the URL, should they loose the bookmark. (Client Centre also handles their cPanel email management etc.)

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Just been having a peak at my 404 logs.

Various Wordpress files are featuring very highly, but also many attempts to find my jquery.js file. 

Another one that comes up a lot is /utility/convert/data/config.inc.php and variations.  What is that from?

But by far the most popular are wp-XX files. It shows that if you have a WordPress site, you WILL get hundreds of attempts to take it down each day, even on your little-visited blog.

How comforting ...

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I have some more different in my collection :)

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