When you are creating a custom site definition you can set the ExecuteUrl of the onet.xml Project element to a site-relative URL. When users create new sites from the definition they will be sent to the ExecuteUrl instead of the home page when the site is first created.
You can use this to send your users to a custom page to setup more advanced features of your site.
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This post was written by spotd on June 16, 2009
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This redirection will not work if u r creating RootWeb , also it will only work with STS and meeting workspace template only
Hi Sandeep!
You are almost correct on the RootWeb issue, but it would be more correct to say that it will not work if you are creating a site collection through the Central Administration. However, in some cases, you can manage to create a site collection in which a RootWeb template is not applied, for example if there is an error in the site definition user. In these cases, the first request to the site collection will spawn a Create Site page to set up the RootWeb, and the ExecuteUrl will work. However, the situations in which this is usable for a root site are obscure, so consider this a method for creating sites only, not for site collections.
I am not sure what you mean by only working with STS and MWS, though. When you are creating a custom site definition you are not using any of the two existing templates you mention, but rather creating your own. And I can guarantee you that it does work very well when creating your own, custom site definition.
If you want an example of how this can be used, check out my uncle’s Building the SharePoint User Experience book, on page 313.
SpotD