Directing traffic to specific server based on URL

I've got 2 servers in a server farm on round robin load balancing set up. Right now, it load balances requests to www.abc.com. I would like all requests for www.abc.com/admin to go to server A all the time. What's the best way of accomplishing this? I've tried setting up stickiness with no luck so I'm not sure if that's the right approach. Thanks.

First create class-map with your url:
class-map type http loadbalance match-any ABC
3 match http url /admin.*
Next create new server-farm with only one server:
serverfarm host SERVERFARM.SERVER1
rserver RSERVER.ONE 80
    probe PROBE.ONE
    inservice
Next modify your policy-map type load-balance:
policy-map type loadbalance first-match POLICY.LB
class ABC
    serverfarm SERVERFARM.SERVER1
class class-default
    sticky-serverfarm STICKY.SERVERFARM.ONE
Everything what is matched by Class-map will be forwarded to Serverfarm. Simple and very scalable.

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