All Front-end Site

I imagine this situation will happen to other wordpress sites that are front-end only as well.

Since the staging site is created in a sub-folder of the main site, all logins will be directed to a front-end page (because its a specific page, it belongs to the main site, not the staging). Thus once logged in, you are inside the main site, and can actually never log into the staging site.

Any work around this you suggest? Perhaps we can choose a different domain, rather than default to a sub-folder?

Thanks,