What is better to use to redirect to https on nginx for opencart?

Question

Nginx

What is better to use to redirect to https on nginx for opencart?

if ($scheme != "https") {
    rewrite ^ https://$host$uri permanent;
    }

or

location / {
                rewrite ^/(.*)$ https://$host/$1 permanent;
    }

Is there a difference and does it affect performance?

Answer 1

Ceteris paribus, the variant without if is preferable, and in your case the second one also looks much more elegant.