PHP webpage downloads instead of opens in browser (nginx, php on debian10 server)

I have a server running Debian 10. I have installed nginx (1.18.0) and php and php-fpm (7.4.28). Following this guide I was able to get html website with certification by certbot running. Then I wanted to use php to have menu on my website dynamic. When I go to the webpage it downloads instead of opening up.

My file tree is as follows: my webpage is stored in /var/www/dragallur, there is a file phpinfo.php with the following code (if I type it asks me to download the webpage):

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

In the directory /etc/nginx/sites-available there are two files, default and mywebsite, default has following contents:

server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server; root /var/www/html; index index.php index.html; server_name _; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args; } location ~ /.php$ { include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;}}

And the file mywebsite:

server { server_name dragallur.xyz ; root /var/www/dragallur ; index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html ; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ =404 ; #try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args; } location ~ /.php$ { include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock; }
listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on; # managed by Certbot
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/ # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/ # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot}
server {
if ($host = dragallur.xyz) { return 301
} # managed by Certbot listen 80 ; listen [::]:80 ; server_name dragallur.xyz ;
return 404; # managed by Certbot}

This issue seems to happen quite often to people. I have tried cleaning my cache, I have done countless changes to the two files above but I still get the same problem. There may be other key config files so just tell me and I will share the contents. After every change which I think might be useful I run the command

systemctl restart nginx

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