Nginx + Apache = working htaccess?

Question

Nginx

In general, such things, I sat on a regular hosting, everything was fine until there was not enough memory for the script.
I decided to switch to vps, bought everything. I put ajenti I put Nginx I was going to put pagespeed on nginx, when it suddenly dawned on me that .htaccess would not work.
The question is, will htaccess work if you do everything like in this post? habrahabr.ru/post/120814

Answer 1

Will.

Answer 2

Everything that you do through .htaccess can most likely be done through nginx configs.

Answer 3

Why do you need nginx at all?