Webmaster Tools

[Eye seven]

Morning,

Got a slight issue I need help with. I have set my new website up with Google Webmaster Tools and verified the site to start using the tools. Under site configuration there is a settings option where you can set up the preferred domain. I want to set up my site as www but when I hit save it says I have to verify my site as http://mysite.com. If I have it verified already (I assume under http://www.mysite.com) how do I verify again under the non www version? I have Googled for an answer but my Google powers have well and truly left me lately.

Any help would be great. The site has not been indexed yet so if I can get this sorted today I can stop and duplicate listings.

Cheers and Happy Christmas everyone.

PS Dont click the links - thats not my site just an example URL!

 

[Eye seven]

Thanks Pho, I did use the www version when I did set it up. I have now found the solution although it seems a bit strange. I had to set up another account for the non www domain and verify that and then I could change the settings on the www account. I will do the htaccess file as well as you suggested so thank you for that.