diff --git a/internal/ingress/inspector/inspector_test.go b/internal/ingress/inspector/inspector_test.go
index 4798ba8783..cf19aba7ff 100644
--- a/internal/ingress/inspector/inspector_test.go
+++ b/internal/ingress/inspector/inspector_test.go
@@ -44,10 +44,18 @@ var (
 									PathType: &prefix,
 									Path:     "/xpto/ab0/x_ss-9",
 								},
+								{
+									PathType: &prefix,
+									Path:     "/.well-known/acme-challenge/",
+								},
 								{
 									PathType: &exact,
 									Path:     "/bla/",
 								},
+								{
+									PathType: &exact,
+									Path:     "/.well-known/acme-challenge/",
+								},
 							},
 						},
 					},
@@ -101,6 +109,14 @@ var (
 									PathType: &prefix,
 									Path:     "/lala/xp\ntest",
 								},
+								{
+									PathType: &prefix,
+									Path:     "/$lala/test",
+								},
+								{
+									PathType: &prefix,
+									Path:     "#lala/test",
+								},
 								{
 									Path: "notvalidpathname-panics",
 								},
@@ -177,6 +193,8 @@ func TestValidatePathType(t *testing.T) {
 				aErr("xpto/lala", "Exact"),
 				aErr("/foo/bar/[a-z]{3}", "Prefix"),
 				aErr("/lala/xp\ntest", "Prefix"),
+				aErr("/$lala/test", "Prefix"),
+				aErr("#lala/test", "Prefix"),
 				aErr("notvalidpathname-panics", "<nil>"),
 			),
 		},
diff --git a/internal/ingress/inspector/rules.go b/internal/ingress/inspector/rules.go
index 8388efdd5b..fc9e49d571 100644
--- a/internal/ingress/inspector/rules.go
+++ b/internal/ingress/inspector/rules.go
@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ var (
 	invalidSecretsDir     = regexp.MustCompile(`/var/run/secrets`)
 	invalidByLuaDirective = regexp.MustCompile(`.*_by_lua.*`)
 
-	// validPathType enforces alphanumeric, -, _ and / characters.
-	// The field (?i) turns this regex case insensitive
+	// validPathType enforces alphanumeric, -, _ , . and / characters.
+	// The field (?i) turns this regex case-insensitive
 	// The remaining regex says that the string must start with a "/" (^/)
-	// the group [[:alnum:]\_\-\/]* says that any amount of characters (A-Za-z0-9), _, - and /
+	// the group [[:alnum:]\_\-\/\.]* says that any amount of characters (A-Za-z0-9), _, - , . and /
 	// are accepted until the end of the line
 	// Nothing else is accepted.
-	validPathType = regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)^/[[:alnum:]\_\-/]*$`)
+	validPathType = regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)^/[[:alnum:]._\-/]*$`)
 
 	invalidRegex = []regexp.Regexp{}
 )