File naming conundrum

dashes-periods-or words

[Conard]

I have an interesting problem with naming directories and files within them.
I sell a product that comes in several different widths.
1”
1 ¼”
1 ¾”
And so on.
I want to separate all of the products of the same width into directories that are named in such a way to make it easy to find them and update them like this:
www.domainname.com/1.25/product-1.html
I know not to use an inch mark as shown and have written it as:
1.25 in the past but I am now wondering about naming files or folders and using a period in the file name.
Any better ways to name them?
There are several pages all ready indexed named 1.25-product.html and they are indexed but will this come back to bite me if I continue this practice?
Thanks…

[tedster]

Some servers do have problems when there's a period in a directory name, or more than one period in a file name -- but it's not very common from what I can see. Doing Google searches on phrases like "period in file name" returns a few, server specific warnings and a few notices that the server is now upgraded to handle it. But only a few.

Using a naming scheme like 1-25 or 1_25 would be completely safe, but I can see that it's not as intuitive for you. However, using periods in file names on the web is not common practice, so you may run into an issue once in a while. One joker named his directory me.jpg -- now that's playing with fire, IMO.

[Jenstar]

I agree with tedster, using a . in a directory name is asking for trouble. I would use a - instead of a period, or use nothing at all (ie. /125/)

[g1smd]

I have a #1 site that uses http://home.somefreeisp.com/username/keyword.keyword.keyword/ folder names and have no problems at all as far as I know.

What problems could there be?

[Conard]

Thanks for the answers.
I thought /125/ or /1-25/ would work I just have to get used to the naming when I check on files.