I looked at that howto... but I'm getting lost somewhere... I have made these changes to httpd.conf and restarted httpd afterwards, but still no go.
NameVirtualHost 1.20.30.40:88
#
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
# server name.
#
#<VirtualHost *:80>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
# DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
# ServerName dummy-host.example.com
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
#</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost 1.20.30.40:88>
ServerName site1.mysite.net
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site1
ServerAdmin me@gmail.com
</VirtualHost>
any ideas?