composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name --prefer-dist

Route::get('/about', function()
{
    return "about page";
});

server {
    listen 80 default;
    server_name _;

    root /var/www/laravel/public;
    index index.php;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location ~ .php$ {
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass  unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}