@jubiki

The overall gist of the guide here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-laravel-with-an-nginx-web-server-on-ubuntu-14-04

... is pretty much the same for 16.04. The one section you would want to skip is the one regarding the creation of a swap file. This isn't recommended now, so it's safe to overlook that section.

I've tried that tutorial, and it didn't help me. I still get the default blue screen.

@jubiki
I have recently made a gist for configuring the latest laravel 5.4 on LEMP,follow the link here

https://gist.github.com/naveenyagati/5deec8fc40a2faaff20c629362dddf39

@jubiki

That didn't help too :(

I figured it out, maybe LEMP 16.04 doesn't use the /etc/nginx/sites-available/default anymore. So, I tried editing this file instead.

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/digitalocean

Then, whooah! It worked :)

Reference:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-move-an-nginx-web-root-to-a-new-location-on-ubuntu-16-04