Issues i've been having with a new VM - php

Question

So after conducting a long research and not being able to find an answer to my problems, i’ve decided to ask for help.
I recently joined DigitalOcean as a client and created my first droplet, with the intention of migrating from another service.
It runs on Ubuntu 18.04, it has Nginx and PHP 7.2 installed.
I’ve been knocking my head trying to figure out why wouldn’t it run any php files in the /var/www/html folder, instead i get the “This site can’t be reached” for a simple phpinfo().
It runs html files just fine so it must have something to do with the php setup.
It almost always is something simple, this time however i cannot seem to find out what it is, would someone be able to help?
Here is my default config for nginx:
# Default server configuration
#
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
# SSL configuration
#
# listen 443 ssl default_server;
# listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
#
# Note: You should disable gzip for SSL traffic.
# See: https://bugs.debian.org/773332
#
# Read up on ssl_ciphers to ensure a secure configuration.
# See: https://bugs.debian.org/765782
#
# Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
# Don't use them in a production server!
#
# include snippets/snakeoil.conf;
root /var/www/html;
# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name _;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
# pass PHP scripts to FastCGI server
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
# With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
# With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
#fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
# Virtual Host configuration for example.com
#
# You can move that to a different file under sites-available/ and symlink that
# to sites-enabled/ to enable it.
#
#server {
# listen 80;
# listen [::]:80;
#
# server_name example.com;
#
# root /var/www/example.com;
# index index.html;
#
# location / {
# try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
# }
#}
And PHP seems to be running fine:
php7.2-fpm.service - The PHP 7.2 FastCGI Process Manager
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/php7.2-fpm.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2019-12-09 13:26:59 UTC; 30min ago
Docs: man:php-fpm7.2(8)
Main PID: 14842 (php-fpm7.2)
Status: "Processes active: 0, idle: 2, Requests: 2, slow: 0, Traffic: 0req/sec"
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4704)
CGroup: /system.slice/php7.2-fpm.service
├─14842 php-fpm: master process (/etc/php/7.2/fpm/php-fpm.conf)
├─14866 php-fpm: pool www
└─14867 php-fpm: pool www
Dec 09 13:26:59 ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-fra1-01 systemd[1]: Starting The PHP 7.2 FastCGI Process Manager...
Dec 09 13:26:59 ubuntu-s-2vcpu-4gb-fra1-01 systemd[1]: Started The PHP 7.2 FastCGI Process Manager.