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Send out a petition for signing
When your petition is ready, you will want to publicise the URL where people can sign it.
    Go to Campaigns > Dashboard > Petitions.
    Click More > Sign next to the name of your petition.
    You will see your petition; copy the URL and use this link to email to your existing contacts, or add to your web site for individuals to sign your petition.

When i go to set it to "Sign" (and i am superadmin) i get Error: 0 -
Sorry but we are not able to provide this at the moment.
You do not have permission to access this page
Return to home page.

Here is the URL from the demo site:
http://joomla.demo.civicrm.org/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/petition/sign&sid=1&reset=1
URL from my site:
http://www.somedomain.org/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/petition/sign&sid=2&reset=1

Here is the error message from the demo site:

 The requested page cannot be found.
An error has occurred while processing your request.

You may not be able to visit this page because of:

    an out-of-date bookmark/favourite
    a mistyped address
    a search engine that has an out-of-date listing for this site
    you have no access to this page

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I figured out that I needed to add permissions to the 'Public' user in [Joomla Global Configuration - CiviCRM component] to sign online petitions.  That key piece is missing from the documentation.  But it does mention that it is necessary for Drupal, so I took a chance and luckily, the solution was the same in Joomla.