What's the best way to restart apache?

My server is RH 7.3. I was wondering, is there a difference between running the command:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

and:

/etc/init.d/httpd stop
/etc/init.d/httpd startssl

to restart apache, after say, editing the httpd.conf file? I've gotten advise for both. Is one safer/better than the other?

 

 

 

 

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