can't escape dot (.) at my mod_rewrite code

Question

i need to transform following address of my site: http://mysite.com/do.php?id=123.W456/789 into http://mysite.com/123.W456/789

i've almost got succeed in this noble purpose with following .htaccess file

DirectoryIndex mysite.php

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([A-Za-z0-9\/.]+)?$ mysite.php?id=$1 [L]

where . is a code of . (dot) character

it goes cool with such url string http://mysite.com/123W456/789 (i.e rewrites it to http://mysite.com/do.php?id=123W456/789)

but DOESN'T rewrite url string with dot character - http://mysite.com/123.W456/789

can anybody help?

Answer 1

We use \. to escape the dot character in an htaccess file, not the HTML entity for it. Using the HTML entity would make it think that you are allowing the &, #, and ; characters rather than the . character.