Welcome Page not set when creating a sharepoint site based on a publishing custom site template

After I save a enterprise publishing site as a site template and then try to create a subsite based on the site template that I just created, the site is created, but browser doesn't take me to the default page. After doing some digging I've found that the Welcome page url value is not set right, for example: http://sharepointsite:55555/SubSite/ is the welcome page url value after creating th开发者_运维百科e siste and where I think it should be http://sharepointsite:55555/SubSite/defualt.aspx?

Help Please, I've been struggling with this issue for a couple of days now.

Thank You,

Saving a publishing site as a site template is not supported. Activating the publishing feature disables the "Save site as template option".

How are you trying to save it as template ?