admin login takes me to the front of my store

[shagging]

I did a manual fresh install of Zencart 1.3g and have followed the instructions and everything installed fine but I cannot login to my admin. When I try to login it takes me to the front of my store with the welcome message and the url or the "final alert message". I have been at this for over 10 hours looking for solutions everywhere and conacting my host (startlogic) who have been no help. Could someone please help? I did the install this morning and have done nothing else since the install.

[mattclements]

Is your admin directory /admin/ ? If so this is trying to tell you to change the folder name to something else.

See here for how to do this: https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=33