Laravel Deployment

Hi ! I am struggling here to deploy my web app to production. Currently we have Windows Server that runs Apache just like WAMP or XAMPP. And their projects are located in wamp\www.

My problem is, during development I used php artisan serve which runs the server.php on root directory and then redirect all requests to public folder. And I don't think it's better practice to run your app with a URL :

domain_name/laravel_app/public"

I think it's not a good practice. Plus, my application routes destroyed. So I need something that will instruct the apache server to redirect to public folder. And wait, I already used vhosting method. Also not a good idea. Plus it destroy all apps on the server.