Magento with Wordpress

[keokg2]

I have Magento installed in a root directory and Wordpress in a subdirectory.  I want Wordpress to run while I set up a Magento theme.  I've got the index.php file to point to the Wordpress subdirectory and that is working fine.  I also have a second Magento in a staging subdirectory.  The problem is that when I access the Magento admin panel, I'm able to login in but then Wordpress throws a 404 Not Found message.  How can I access the Magento admin panel and set up the theme?

As a side question, is it possible to run both separately on the same server?

Thank you very much. 

[MagenX]

you must have proper rewrites for each cms

wordpres has own and magento its own htaccess pointing to correct folder and index.php

[keokg2]

Thank you.  How would I do the custom rewrites and where could I go to learn how to do this?