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Boss wants me to set up a website so that by typing "https://www.example.com" (no :1433) in the address bar of a web browser, the request will go through port 1433 on a Watchguard Firebox to an apache web server with domain-ssl.conf containing

Listen 443
<VirtualHost *:443>
     ServerName www.example.com
     ServerAlias example.com
     DocumentRoot /var/www/example.com/public_html
     ErrorLog /var/www/example.com/error.log
     CustomLog /var/www/example.com/requests.log combined
     SSLEngine on
     SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/example/apache.crt
     SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/example/apache.key
     SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/apache2/ssl/example/apache.ca-bundle​
</VirtualHost>

Can this be done? If so, how?

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The only way to achieve this is to put something in between which is listening on Port 443, such as a load balancer, proxy etc.

Other than that, without a specific port, any conventional web browser is going to request either Port 80 or Port 443 by default.

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