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This sounds like a bug to me, and you'll likely need a developer to track it down & fix it.

You could look for related bugs on the CiviCRM issue tracker: https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-14766?jql=text%20~%20%22personal%20campaign%20pages%22%20ORDER%20BY%20created%20DESC

FYI this functionality works correctly for me on CiviCRM 4.2.x, so this is either a new bug introduced in a later version or something particular to your installation.

If the bug hasn't been reported and if you can verify the error in one of the demo CiviCRM servers, I'm sure the developer would appreciate a bug report on the issue.

For a workaround fix, if you go to CiviCRM (logged in as admin) then Administer/Communications/Message Templates then click System Workflow Messages you'll see a list of templates.

Several relate to Personal Campaign Pages (PCP) or tell a friend. Again it might take a developer to do this for you but you might be able to edit those templates to work around the problem until it is fixed.

For instance, a relevant piece of one of my templates looks like this:

{ts}Send email to family, friends and colleagues with a personal message about this campaign.{/ts}
{ts}Include this link to your fundraising page in your emails{/ts}:
{$pcpInfoURL}

Another thing to look at is user permissions (probably under your Joomla administration menu somewhere).  It is just possible that anonymous users need some permission that is not granted, to view that page (it's also possible there is a new bug in how the $pcpInfoURL is generated and it is wrong, or the developers change the $pcpInfoURL for some reason but didn't think to change the permissions needed to anonymous users to be able to view it).