diff --git a/scrapy/commands/startproject.py b/scrapy/commands/startproject.py
index a51a586ab..0940d67f9 100644
--- a/scrapy/commands/startproject.py
+++ b/scrapy/commands/startproject.py
@@ -98,9 +98,9 @@ class Command(ScrapyCommand):
                 ProjectName=string_camelcase(project_name))
         print("New Scrapy project %r, using template directory %r, created in:" % \
               (project_name, self.templates_dir))
-        print("    %s\n" % abspath(project_name))
+        print("    %s\n" % abspath(project_dir))
         print("You can start your first spider with:")
-        print("    cd %s" % project_name)
+        print("    cd %s" % project_dir)
         print("    scrapy genspider example example.com")
 
     @property
diff --git a/tests/test_commands.py b/tests/test_commands.py
index a487d14f7..ca7a19eaa 100644
--- a/tests/test_commands.py
+++ b/tests/test_commands.py
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ class StartprojectTest(ProjectTest):
         assert exists(join(join(abspath(project_dir), self.project_name), 'settings.py'))
         assert exists(join(join(abspath(project_dir), self.project_name), 'spiders', '__init__.py'))
 
+        self.assertEqual(0, self.call('startproject', self.project_name, project_dir + '2'))
+
         self.assertEqual(1, self.call('startproject', self.project_name, project_dir))
         self.assertEqual(1, self.call('startproject', self.project_name + '2', project_dir))
         self.assertEqual(1, self.call('startproject', 'wrong---project---name'))