Are we allowed to view directory of website or is it prohibited?

The Answer to the question - Can we view directory of website is No. There is no way to browse a directory of any website.

For example, let's say you have a website with the url http://example.com/documents/document.doc I can check out http://example.com/documents/ to see if this can return the file index. If they have done nothing to prevent this you could see this file/folder structure returned. However the user could disable directory browsing on the server level. They may do this from a GUI like IIS or they could do it via configuration files like in IIS or Options -Indexes for Apache. They likely have their server configuration have a default directory document. In this case a simple blank index.htm, index.html, or whatever their root file is will prevent the directory listing if that file is found by the server regardless if directory browsing is enabled or not.

Since file discovery is becoming a common practice for recon in attacking websites or stealing sensitive information you will now notice more sites, web applications like CMSs, web server software and more are now disabling directory browsing by default. This means you can only spider a website for files to get a listing. But it would require you to brute force file/folder names or only be able to return file/folder names discovered through the public facing website. With protections in place forcing a web server to list its contents just doesn't exist unless there is a vulnerability one could exploit.