Solved: IIS 8, laravel (web.config)

Hello,

I am using IIS 8 to deploy my laravel now, but have a minor problem. Everything is installed and working, but only if I manually add /index.php behind the domain name. So www.domain.com gives me a 403 forbidden (access is denied), but www.domain.com/index.php gives me my (almost complete) working website.

The other minor thing is that my images are not working (unless I add /public in front of the url's). But I don't want the /public part in the URL (otherwise people might start investigating and trying other folders and things like that). (Also my css and everything automatically gets filled with /public what can be seen in the webpage source)

So is it possible to remove the /public path in IIS altogether? So both my /403 gets removed and I don't have to add /public to all my image paths without breaking the rest of the code?

My web.config is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
        <defaultDocument>
            <files>
                <clear />
                <add value="index.php" />
                <add value="default.aspx" />
                <add value="Default.htm" />
                <add value="Default.asp" />
                <add value="index.htm" />
                <add value="index.html" />
            </files>
        </defaultDocument>
        <handlers accessPolicy="Read, Execute, Script">
        </handlers>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 3" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />                     
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="public/index.php/{R:1}" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>