Access denied for admin user after new drupal 6 install I just installed Drupal 6 (Don't ask why) from a fresh install (Version 6.29). I followed the install steps, created an admin user, set the correct time zone, etc. 

But when I login and attempt to proceed to the admin panel, I get Access denied
You are not authorized to access this page. I have read about this issue many other places, and have attempted many solutions, but none seem to work for me. 

I noticed that there is nothing in the sessions table of my MySQL database for this drupal install (but there is data in other tables). I think that this has something to do with it, but ti could be that there is info in the table, but it is immediately removed due to a session/cookie issue.

I have repeatedly removed all my browser cookies each time I have tried a solution. I have tried many solutions on drupal.org, many of which have been also referenced on other sites, but none have worked. 

OS: Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks)

Web Server: Apache/2.2.24 (Unix) PHP/5.4.17 mod_ssl/2.2.24 OpenSSL/0.9.8y DAV/2 Server at XX.XX.XXX.XXX Port 80

Not using SSL for this drupal install.
It may be that your cookie domain is not set correctly, this is a known cause of Access Denied errors when logging in, and it might be worth removing cookie domain info from settings.php and see if that works, and go from there.