diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7581885..2219d13 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ This repo is meant to be an example of how to easily set up an arbitrary-sized c
 * TODO: explain personal/secret info needed for setup
 * TODO: explain `terraform`, `awscli`, and `jq` prerequisites
 * TODO: explain what `run.sh` does
-* TODO: explain load-balanced endpoints, and /haproxy?stats
+* TODO: explain load-balanced endpoints, and /stats
 * TODO: explain SSHing into haproxy instance in order to manually run the following:
 
 ```
diff --git a/tf-remote-haproxy-script.sh b/tf-remote-haproxy-script.sh
index 1508dd2..9f11f82 100644
--- a/tf-remote-haproxy-script.sh
+++ b/tf-remote-haproxy-script.sh
@@ -59,9 +59,13 @@ defaults
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------
 frontend http_front
    bind *:80
-   stats uri /haproxy?stats
+   stats uri /stats
    default_backend http_back
 
+   # !!!: normally you would not want to expose this, only for demo
+   # this allows anyone to easily take backends down/up/etc via panel
+   stats admin if TRUE
+
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------
 # round robin balancing between the various backends
 #---------------------------------------------------------------------