Well, I'm not sure what the default on Ubuntu is but in the Debian one, it has it commented out.

#user  nobody;

Pretty much need to run the web server as a web user, not nobody.

Thanks a lot for your help. I really appreciate it.

@fsdolphin I am happy you found a solution, and I can tell you I am using also the smallest droplet from Digtial Ocean. Btw was your installation of laravel 5. or 5.1?

@maytham It was for Laravel 5.1 but as far as I understand my issue has nothing to do with Laravel, it was the server configuration, am I correct @bashy?.

Yeah just a permission/setup of communication between Nginx and php-fpm