.htaccess doubt

Hi guys,

I am having some prob with the .htaccess file, hope you guys may able to give me a little idea about this..

I have added this line in my htaccess file but why it still doesn't work ? It still shows the default page rather than the page i written in the code...

ErrorDocument 404 "http://62.129.238.22/~myweb/affiliate/notfound.htm"

i tried these two as well but still not working..
ErrorDocument 404 "./affiliate/notfound.htm"

ErrorDocument 404 /affiliate/notfound.htm

when i change the file name to index.htm, it will link to my old server index,htm file.. why my .htaccess file would link to an index file from different server ? it sounds weird to me..


Did i miss something ? I read all the refernce and it looks like easy but how come in my case, it doesn't work ?

Please advise.

Thanks.