I've got large joomla app on my server and I want to migrate its live view to another server. But due to server performance reasons, server admin want's only static html/css sites with js eventually so i can't copy whole site. Of course getting sources manually is not an option because there is a lot of sites and it will take to much time to generate it again on every article update.
I know this is strange, but I must do it somehow =/
You will need to prepare the site, remove dynamic elements like contact forms, search boxes, etc..., and then:
nice wget --mirror -e robots=off --page-requisites --html-extension -nv --base=./ --convert-links --directory-prefix=./ http://www.example.com/
This will create a static archive of the site example.com, on a *nix system, located in the current directory.
A google search for "joomla static archive" turned up this post: http://vaasa.hacklab.fi/2013/11/28/howto-make-a-static-copy-of-joomla-site-with-wget/
The Drupal related documentation may also be helpful to understanding some aspects of the process: https://drupal.org/node/27882