redirecting directory browse attempt to homepage

Hello

I am wishing to polish off a .htaccess file that I found with redirections to my homepage, so that if an directory such as mysite.com/wordpress/wp-includes is browsed, rather than seeing a 403 error, the browser is directed to the home page at mysite.com

I find this to be a more desirable action over the ‘Silence is Golden’ index.php in every open directory. Is there any reason this is not a good idea?

This is the contents of my current .htaccess file:

# protect the htaccess file
<files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>

# disable the server signature
ServerSignature Off

# limit file uploads to 50mb
LimitRequestBody 54000000

# protect wpconfig.php
<files wp-config.php>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</files>

#who has access who doesnt
order allow,deny

#deny from 000.000.000.000
allow from all

#custom error docs
#ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.php
#ErrorDocument 403 /forbidden.php
#ErrorDocument 500 /error.php

# disable directory browsing
Options All -Indexes
#redirect old to new
Redirect 301 /wordpress/index.php https://www.mysite.com
#block referring domains
#RewriteEngine on
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} digg\.com [NC]
#RewriteRule .* – [F]

#disable hotlinking of images with forbidden or custom image option
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^https://(www\.)?mysite.com/.*$ [NC]

#RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ – [F]

#RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg)$ https://mysite.com [R,L]

# php compression – use with caution
#<ifmodule mod_php4.c>
#php_value zlib.output_compression 16386
#</ifmodule>

# set the canonical url
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# protect from spam comments
#RewriteEngine On
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php*
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*mysite.com.* [OR]
#RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
#RewriteRule (.*) ^https://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L]

Thanks in advance