Help with site ownership verification using Network Solutions

I have been trying to verify ownership of my website for several weeks and am getting frustrated because the verification keeps failing.  I use Network Solutions for my hosting and built the website using the website builder tool.  Their tool does not allow me to put a meta-tag in the head section so I am limited to the root directory option.  Someone from Network Solutions copied the auth file to the root directory about a month ago but that did not work.  I did the same thing today and the verification still failed - any suggestions?