Wordpress not showing up, 404 error

When using a LEMP Stack for wordpress or any other php powered site you will need to make some changes to nginx as it does not have native support out of the box. I have posted a sample config file below. replace example.com with your domain and replace root with the location of wordpress. The example was taken from https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ … untu-16-04">https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-in-ubuntu-16-04 you can also follow the guides at https://www.linode.com/docs/web-servers/lemp/ for configuring a LEMP stack, just select your linux distro or one closeest to your distro and follow. pay attention to the steps for enabling php.

# Example taken from a digital ocean guide and modified to include the domain.
server {
    listen 80 example.com www.example.com;
    listen [::]:80 example.com www.example.com;

    root /var/www/html/example.com/;
    index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

    server_name example.com;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

You can use WordPress with Linode on Cloudways platform, I was having same issue and found this blog to fix WordPress 40 error: https://www.cloudways.com/blog/fix-404-error-on-wordpress/