Wordpress on Ubuntu w/ Nginx - php

Question

I used this tutorial from DigitalOcean
I am not able to get my vps to work with just one wordpress site with nginx.
Eventually I want to have 2 Wordpress sites on 2 different directories on the same server.
I included all 3 .conf files wordress.conf, common.conf & multisite.conf just like it says in the tutorial.
nginx.conf
user www-data;
worker_processes 1;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 768;
}
http {
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
# server_tokens off;
# server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
# server_name_in_redirect off;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
# gzip_vary on;
# gzip_proxied any;
# gzip_comp_level 6;
# gzip_buffers 16 8k;
# gzip_http_version 1.1;
gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss textjavascript;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}
My file in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example that is symlinked from /etc/nginx/sites-available/example
server {
server_name example.com;
rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 permanent;
}
server {
server_name www.example.com;
root /var/www/example;
access_log /var/log/nginx/www.example.com.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/www.example.com.error.log;
include global/common.conf;
include global/wordpress.conf;
}
wordpress.conf
# WORDPRESS : Rewrite rules, sends everything through index.php and keeps the appended query string intact
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}
# SECURITY : Deny all attempts to access PHP Files in the uploads directory
location ~* /(?:uploads|files)/.*\.php$ {
deny all;
}
# REQUIREMENTS : Enable PHP Support
location ~ \.php$ {
# SECURITY : Zero day Exploit Protection
try_files $uri =404;
# ENABLE : Enable PHP, listen fpm sock
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
# PLUGINS : Enable Rewrite Rules for Yoast SEO SiteMap
rewrite ^/sitemap_index\.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=1 last;
rewrite ^/([^/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?\.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 last;
#Yeah! you did it.
common.conf
# Global configuration file.
# ESSENTIAL : Configure Nginx Listening Port
listen 80;
# ESSENTIAL : Default file to serve. If the first file isn't found,
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# ESSENTIAL : no favicon logs
location = /favicon.ico {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
# ESSENTIAL : robots.txt
location = /robots.txt {
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
# ESSENTIAL : Configure 404 Pages
error_page 404 /404.html;
# ESSENTIAL : Configure 50x Pages
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/www;
}
# SECURITY : Deny all attempts to access hidden files .abcde
location ~ /\. {
deny all;
}
# PERFORMANCE : Set expires headers for static files and turn off logging.
location ~* ^.+\.(js|css|swf|xml|txt|ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|rss|atom|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ {
access_log off; log_not_found off; expires 30d;
}
multisite.conf
# Rewrite rules for WordPress Multi-site.
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;
rewrite ^/[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+(/wp-.*) $1 last;
rewrite ^/[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+(/.*\.php)$ $1 last;
}
I configured the wp-config.php file as well.
Created my MySQL user and made sure the user has access to the database.
Also changed the permissions of /var/www/example with chmod -R 755 .
And I have nothing on my logs:
/var/log/nginx/www.example.com.access.log nor /var/log/nginx/www.example.com.error.log files have been created.
When I curl or telnet I get a connection refused
telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xx or telnet example.com
Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xx...
telnet: connect to address xxx.xxx.xxx.xx: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
curl xxx.xxx.xxx.xx or curl example.com
`curl: (7) Failed to connect to xxx.xxx.xxx.xx port 80: Connection refused`