Periods in :id causing Apache routing error

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Using Rails 1.2 and FastCGI on Apache 1.3.

I'm trying to figure out why a request like this isn't making it into my Rails app: http://www.domain.com/users/show/a.b.c

The user id is "a.b.c", and because of the periods in there, Apache is giving this error:

File not found Change this error message for pages not found in public/404.html

If the :id does not have the periods, it's fine, and the page is served by Rails.

I'm not sure where the problem lies... But, here's my .htaccess RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA] RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]

Is this an Apache config thing, or more of a Rails routing thing?

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Ah, that makes sense.

Thanks!