Https doesn't show my website

I’ve installed cert to nginx ubuntu xenial using certbot

I can access my website with http but not with https.

##
# You should look at the following URL's in order to grasp a solid understanding
# of Nginx configuration files in order to fully unleash the power of Nginx.
# http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls
# http://wiki.nginx.org/QuickStart
# http://wiki.nginx.org/Configuration
#
# Generally, you will want to move this file somewhere, and start with a clean
# file but keep this around for reference. Or just disable in sites-enabled.
#
# Please see /usr/share/doc/nginx-doc/examples/ for more detailed examples.
##

# 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/laravel/public;

        # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
        index index.php  index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name aksout.com ;

        location / {
                # First attempt to serve request as file, then
                # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
        }

        # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000

        location ~ \.php$ {
                                    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;

        #       # With php7.0-cgi alone:
        #       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        #       # With php7.0-fpm:
                fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        }

        # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
        # concurs with nginx's one
        #
        location ~ /\.ht {
                deny all;
        }
                location ~ /.well-known {
                allow 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;
#       }
#}

Your config file should look something like this

server {
	# SSL configuration
	#
	listen 443 ssl http2;

	root /var/www/mywebsite.com;
	server_name mywebsite.com www.mywebsite.com;
	charset UTF-8;
	access_log /var/log/nginx/mywebsite.com-access.log;
	error_log /var/log/nginx/mywebsite.com-error.log;
	
	# First include our certificates and chain of trust
	ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/mywebsite.com/fullchain.pem;
	ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mywebsite.com/privkey.pem;
	## verify chain of trust of OCSP response using Root CA and Intermediate certs
	ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/mywebsite.com/chain.pem;

	# Diffie-Hellman parameter for DHE ciphersuites, recommended 2048 bits
	ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem;
	ssl_session_timeout 1d;
	ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:128m;
	ssl_session_tickets off;
	ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
	# ciphers recommended by https://mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generator/
	ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!DSS';
	ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
	add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains";
	ssl_stapling on;
	ssl_stapling_verify on;

}
server {
	listen 80;
	server_name mywebsite.com www.mywebsite.com;
       #Redirect port 80 hits to the SSL site port 443 with a permanent redirect
        return 301 https://mywebsite.com$request_uri;
# END OF HTTP PORT 80 HOST CONFIG - CLOSING BRACE BELOW THIS LINE
}
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thank you sir!! it worked!

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Awesome !!! absolute pleasure

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