I used this guide/tut: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-ikev2-vpn-server-with-strongswan-on-ubuntu-16-04#step-4-—-configuring-strongswan

Everything’s working fine now. I have fixed it.

I first restored from a snap.

What went wrong was that at my first install (I’m using putty here), i put the host name as my domain then log on to my sudo user there and this where the website did not load.

On second attempt and the fix: I ssh using my site’s ip address instead of the domain and installed everything and all of it works fine.

Website now loads and the vpn works.

I know I was stupid to ssh through my domain. Haha So yeah… Maybe someone out there made the same mistake as mine, I’m just putting this here.